IC 1523
IC 1523
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
923 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 923 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1523 as it looked roughly 923 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 7809Irregular71 million ly
apartIC 1510 NED02Galaxy110 million ly
apartIC 1510 NED01Galaxy110 million ly
apartIC 21Barred spiral180 million ly
apartIC 29Elliptical210 million ly
apartIC 33Galaxy240 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1510 NED02Galaxy110 million ly
apartIC 1510 NED01Galaxy110 million ly
apartIC 21Barred spiral180 million ly
apartIC 29Elliptical210 million ly
apartIC 33Galaxy240 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).