IC 1919
IC 1919
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
60 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1919 as it looked roughly 60 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 1387Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartNGC 1374Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 1339Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 1351ABarred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1340Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartNGC 1366Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1374Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 1339Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 1351ABarred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1340Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartNGC 1366Lenticular5.0 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).