IC 1968
IC 1968
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
528 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 528 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1968 as it looked roughly 528 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 1950Spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1989Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1991Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1958Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1989Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1991Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral23 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).