IC 5202
IC 5202
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
512 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
241k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 512 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5202 as it looked roughly 512 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 5221Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5257Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 5277Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5094Barred spiral69 million ly
apartIC 5218Barred spiral70 million ly
apartNGC 7734Barred spiral74 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5257Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 5277Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5094Barred spiral69 million ly
apartIC 5218Barred spiral70 million ly
apartNGC 7734Barred spiral74 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).