IC 1741
IC 1741
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
712 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
218k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 712 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1741 as it looked roughly 712 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 147Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 815 NED02Galaxy67 million ly
apartIC 125Galaxy91 million ly
apartNGC 635Barred spiral93 million ly
apartIC 108Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 130Lenticular100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 815 NED02Galaxy67 million ly
apartIC 125Galaxy91 million ly
apartNGC 635Barred spiral93 million ly
apartIC 108Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 130Lenticular100 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).