IC 1386
IC 1386
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
496 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 496 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1386 as it looked roughly 496 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 5124Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 5122Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 7103Elliptical49 million ly
apartIC 1393Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 7104Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 5088Lenticular57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5122Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 7103Elliptical49 million ly
apartIC 1393Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 7104Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 5088Lenticular57 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).