IC 2200
IC 2200
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2200 as it looked roughly 150 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 2417Barred spiral890,000 ly
apartNGC 2369ASpiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 2369Spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 2369BBarred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2297Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 2305Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2369ASpiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 2369Spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 2369BBarred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2297Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 2305Elliptical16 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).