IC 2432
IC 2432
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
466 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 466 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2432 as it looked roughly 466 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 2864Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 2720Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 523Spiral68 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical79 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral84 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral84 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2720Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 523Spiral68 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical79 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral84 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral84 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).