IC 1947
IC 1947
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
538 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 538 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1947 as it looked roughly 538 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 1950Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1968Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1936Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1958Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1968Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1936Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular22 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).