IC 1719
IC 1719
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
272 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 272 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1719 as it looked roughly 272 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 574Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 527Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 526ALenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 526BLenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 639Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 527Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 526ALenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 526BLenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 639Spiral19 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).