IC 5285
IC 5285
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5285 as it looked roughly 288 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 7489Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 7539Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 5282Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7411Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 7409Lenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 7660Elliptical36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7539Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 5282Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7411Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 7409Lenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 7660Elliptical36 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).