IC 2102
IC 2102
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2102 as it looked roughly 170 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 1729Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 1656Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 1628Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1752Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1694Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1700Elliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1656Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 1628Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1752Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1694Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1700Elliptical13 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).