IC 1645
IC 1645
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
529 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 529 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1645 as it looked roughly 529 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 1646Spiral9.9 million ly
apartIC 1620Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 511Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 62Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 57Lenticular59 million ly
apartIC 75Barred spiral65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1620Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 511Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 62Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 57Lenticular59 million ly
apartIC 75Barred spiral65 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).