IC 1526
IC 1526
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
424 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 424 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1526 as it looked roughly 424 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 1519Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 5375Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 5374Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 1527Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 7797Barred spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1506Lenticular64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5375Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 5374Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 1527Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 7797Barred spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1506Lenticular64 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).