IC 2194
IC 2194
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
204 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 204 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2194 as it looked roughly 204 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 475Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2435Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2199Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 2410Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 2385Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2203Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2435Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2199Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 2410Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 2385Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2203Barred spiral14 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).