IC 1535
IC 1535
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
243 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 243 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1535 as it looked roughly 243 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 1534Lenticular500,000 ly
apartIC 1536Elliptical2.8 million ly
apartNGC 48Spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 49Lenticular9.1 million ly
apartIC 1525Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 51Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1536Elliptical2.8 million ly
apartNGC 48Spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 49Lenticular9.1 million ly
apartIC 1525Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 51Lenticular17 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).