IC 3615
IC 3615
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
370 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 370 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3615 as it looked roughly 370 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 803 NED02Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3484Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3489Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 3654Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 3280Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 3235Spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3484Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3489Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 3654Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 3280Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 3235Spiral41 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).