IC 519
IC 519
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
693 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 693 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 519 as it looked roughly 693 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 2696Elliptical120 million ly
apartIC 495Elliptical130 million ly
apartIC 535Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 2431 NED01Spiral160 million ly
apartBrowningIrregular160 million ly
apartIC 516Lenticular180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 495Elliptical130 million ly
apartIC 535Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 2431 NED01Spiral160 million ly
apartBrowningIrregular160 million ly
apartIC 516Lenticular180 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).