IC 1869
IC 1869
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
344 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 344 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1869 as it looked roughly 344 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 1128 NED01Elliptical2.3 million ly
apartNGC 1128 NED02Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 1863Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1882Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1867Galaxy27 million ly
apartIC 1868Galaxy33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1128 NED02Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 1863Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1882Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1867Galaxy27 million ly
apartIC 1868Galaxy33 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).