IC 2400
IC 2400
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
372 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 372 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2400 as it looked roughly 372 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 2405Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2668Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2755Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 2384Lenticular41 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2434Barred spiral45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2668Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2755Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 2384Lenticular41 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2434Barred spiral45 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).