IC 1749
IC 1749
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
242 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 242 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1749 as it looked roughly 242 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 706Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1754Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 174Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1726Galaxy17 million ly
apartNGC 741Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 652Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1754Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 174Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1726Galaxy17 million ly
apartNGC 741Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 652Spiral18 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).