IC 1610
IC 1610
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
263 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 263 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1610 as it looked roughly 263 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 335Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1670BLenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular25 million ly
apartNGC 320Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 309Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 487Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1670BLenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular25 million ly
apartNGC 320Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 309Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 487Barred spiral27 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).