IC 2468
IC 2468
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
378 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 378 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2468 as it looked roughly 378 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 2467Elliptical9.6 million ly
apartNGC 2838Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 2491Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 2825Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 2839Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 2840Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2838Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 2491Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 2825Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 2839Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 2840Barred spiral35 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).