IC 1917
IC 1917
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
259k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 1917 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 1915Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 2012 NED01Lenticular160 million ly
apartIC 1942 NED02Elliptical190 million ly
apartIC 1974Spiral190 million ly
apartIC 1969Spiral200 million ly
apartIC 1951Barred spiral210 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2012 NED01Lenticular160 million ly
apartIC 1942 NED02Elliptical190 million ly
apartIC 1974Spiral190 million ly
apartIC 1969Spiral200 million ly
apartIC 1951Barred spiral210 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).