IC 2337
IC 2337
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
534 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 534 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2337 as it looked roughly 534 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 2309Spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 2226Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 2307Lenticular72 million ly
apartIC 2388Lenticular78 million ly
apartNGC 2637Barred spiral90 million ly
apartIC 478Barred spiral97 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2226Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 2307Lenticular72 million ly
apartIC 2388Lenticular78 million ly
apartNGC 2637Barred spiral90 million ly
apartIC 478Barred spiral97 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).