IC 1587
IC 1587
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
788 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
266k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 788 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1587 as it looked roughly 788 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 1573Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral81 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1588Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral81 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular100 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).