IC 30
IC 30
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
222k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 30 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 1510 NED01Galaxy250 million ly
apartIC 1510 NED02Galaxy250 million ly
apartIC 70Lenticular250 million ly
apartIC 21Barred spiral260 million ly
apartIC 88Barred spiral270 million ly
apartNGC 7809Irregular270 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1510 NED02Galaxy250 million ly
apartIC 70Lenticular250 million ly
apartIC 21Barred spiral260 million ly
apartIC 88Barred spiral270 million ly
apartNGC 7809Irregular270 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).