IC 1412
IC 1412
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1412 as it looked roughly 257 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
NGC 7165Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1417Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1408Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7131Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1435Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7220Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1417Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1408Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7131Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1435Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7220Lenticular30 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).