IC 1609
IC 1609
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
324 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 324 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1609 as it looked roughly 324 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
NGC 319Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 322Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 482Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1595Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 409Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 546Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 322Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 482Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1595Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 409Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 546Barred spiral35 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).