IC 1569
IC 1569
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
538 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 538 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1569 as it looked roughly 538 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 1565Elliptical2.9 million ly
apartNGC 141Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 138Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1568Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 240Lenticular34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 141Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 138Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1568Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 240Lenticular34 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).