IC 2471
IC 2471
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2471 as it looked roughly 288 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 2876Lenticular3.3 million ly
apartIC 533Galaxy26 million ly
apartIC 553Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3014Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 3022Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 2980Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 533Galaxy26 million ly
apartIC 553Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3014Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 3022Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 2980Spiral32 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).