IC 1768
IC 1768
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
204 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 204 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1768 as it looked roughly 204 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 823Elliptical5.9 million ly
apartNGC 775Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 836Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1763Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 689Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 686Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 775Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 836Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1763Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 689Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 686Elliptical17 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).