IC 2930
IC 2930
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
428 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 428 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2930 as it looked roughly 428 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 2852Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2820Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 2783Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2942Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2712Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2820Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 2783Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2942Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2712Barred spiral28 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).