IC 1527
IC 1527
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
401 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 401 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1527 as it looked roughly 401 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 7797Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5374Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5375Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7825Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7783 NED02Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 7811Irregular45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5374Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5375Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7825Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7783 NED02Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 7811Irregular45 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).