IC 1817 NED01
IC 1817 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
343 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 343 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1817 NED01 as it looked roughly 343 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 1817 NED02Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 1117Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1839Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 1116Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 1088 NED01Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1863Lenticular37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1117Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1839Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 1116Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 1088 NED01Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1863Lenticular37 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).