IC 5283
IC 5283
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5283 as it looked roughly 224 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 7469Spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 7495Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7529Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7591Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7422Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7536Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7495Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7529Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7591Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7422Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7536Barred spiral21 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).