IC 5191
IC 5191
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
305 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 305 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5191 as it looked roughly 305 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 7228Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 7227Lenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 7263Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7240Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7315Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7275Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7227Lenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 7263Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7240Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7315Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7275Spiral28 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).