IC 1816
IC 1816
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
238 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 238 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1816 as it looked roughly 238 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 964Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1811Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 897Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1796Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 954Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1811Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 897Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1796Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 954Barred spiral23 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).