IC 5284
IC 5284
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
181 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 181 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5284 as it looked roughly 181 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 7461Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7659Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7691Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7567Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7703Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7659Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7691Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7567Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7703Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral25 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).