IC 1374
IC 1374
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
494 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 494 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1374 as it looked roughly 494 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 1373Elliptical5.6 million ly
apartIC 1375Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical69 million ly
apartIC 5090Spiral71 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral74 million ly
apartIC 5089Spiral75 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1375Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical69 million ly
apartIC 5090Spiral71 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral74 million ly
apartIC 5089Spiral75 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).