IC 2193
IC 2193
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
234 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 234 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2193 as it looked roughly 234 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 2393Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2196Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 2199Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2201Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 2410Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 2185Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2196Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 2199Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2201Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 2410Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 2185Barred spiral19 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).