IC 5243
IC 5243
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
339 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 339 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5243 as it looked roughly 339 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 5242Spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 7321Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5253Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 5233Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5254Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7321Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5253Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 5233Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5254Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular19 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).