IC 1481
IC 1481
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
283 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 283 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1481 as it looked roughly 283 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 7569Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7704Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7685Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7696Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 7705Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 7706Lenticular29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7704Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7685Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7696Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 7705Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 7706Lenticular29 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).