IC 413
IC 413
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 413 as it looked roughly 202 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 412Spiral980,000 ly
apartIC 414Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartNGC 1819Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1719Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 1762Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1717Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 414Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartNGC 1819Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1719Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 1762Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1717Barred spiral26 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).