IC 211
IC 211
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
152 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 152 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 211 as it looked roughly 152 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 851Lenticular6.7 million ly
apartIC 1776Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 825Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 827Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 208Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 216Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1776Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 825Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 827Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 208Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 216Lenticular20 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).