IC 3330
IC 3330
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
318 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 318 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3330 as it looked roughly 318 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 4229Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 3407Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3406Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 4211ALenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 4583Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 3515Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3407Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3406Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 4211ALenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 4583Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 3515Barred spiral21 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).