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
apartNGC 7069Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1391Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1371Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 5090Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7069Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1391Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1371Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 5090Spiral32 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).