IC 1381

IC 1381

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
425 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 425 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1381 as it looked roughly 425 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 1388Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7069Elliptical8.3 million ly
apart
IC 1383Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 1391Elliptical15 million ly
apart
IC 1371Elliptical31 million ly
apart
IC 5090Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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