IC 1599
IC 1599
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
458 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
159k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 458 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1599 as it looked roughly 458 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 1582Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 378Spiral58 million ly
apartNGC 556Elliptical60 million ly
apartNGC 554ALenticular61 million ly
apartNGC 555Lenticular66 million ly
apartNGC 540Lenticular71 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 378Spiral58 million ly
apartNGC 556Elliptical60 million ly
apartNGC 554ALenticular61 million ly
apartNGC 555Lenticular66 million ly
apartNGC 540Lenticular71 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).