IC 2451
IC 2451
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
380 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 380 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2451 as it looked roughly 380 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 2452Spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 536Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2885Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 2804Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 2807BLenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 2807ABarred spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 536Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2885Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 2804Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 2807BLenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 2807ABarred spiral24 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).