IC 2327
IC 2327
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2327 as it looked roughly 125 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 2504Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 2731Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2722Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2574Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2644Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 2725Spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2731Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2722Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2574Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2644Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 2725Spiral38 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).