IC 2164
IC 2164
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
512 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
171k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 512 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2164 as it looked roughly 512 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 2148Barred spiral140 million ly
apartNGC 2229Lenticular150 million ly
apartNGC 2235Elliptical150 million ly
apartNGC 1765Elliptical160 million ly
apartNGC 2178Elliptical160 million ly
apartNGC 2205Elliptical160 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2229Lenticular150 million ly
apartNGC 2235Elliptical150 million ly
apartNGC 1765Elliptical160 million ly
apartNGC 2178Elliptical160 million ly
apartNGC 2205Elliptical160 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).