IC 1507
IC 1507
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
248 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 248 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1507 as it looked roughly 248 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 7684Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7679Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7682Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7706Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 7705Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 7701Lenticular24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7679Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7682Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7706Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 7705Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 7701Lenticular24 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).