IC 1479
IC 1479
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
442 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 442 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1479 as it looked roughly 442 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 5304Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartIC 1471Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1489Galaxy29 million ly
apartIC 1468Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 1451Spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1471Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1489Galaxy29 million ly
apartIC 1468Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 1451Spiral64 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).