IC 412
IC 412
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
201 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 412 as it looked roughly 201 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 413Lenticular980,000 ly
apartIC 414Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 1819Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1719Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 1717Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1762Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 414Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 1819Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1719Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 1717Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1762Spiral26 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).