IC 2846
IC 2846
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
573 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 573 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2846 as it looked roughly 573 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 2823Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2798Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2777Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2746Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 2883Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2713Elliptical26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2798Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2777Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2746Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 2883Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2713Elliptical26 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).