IC 1600
IC 1600
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
546 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 546 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1600 as it looked roughly 546 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 1581Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1582Barred spiral56 million ly
apartNGC 363Lenticular74 million ly
apartIC 78Spiral81 million ly
apartIC 82Lenticular84 million ly
apartIC 1599Barred spiral88 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1582Barred spiral56 million ly
apartNGC 363Lenticular74 million ly
apartIC 78Spiral81 million ly
apartIC 82Lenticular84 million ly
apartIC 1599Barred spiral88 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).