IC 526
IC 526
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
271 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 271 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 526 as it looked roughly 271 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 2728Spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 2773Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2711Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2407Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 548Lenticular42 million ly
apartIC 530Spiral43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2773Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2711Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2407Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 548Lenticular42 million ly
apartIC 530Spiral43 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).