IC 5322
IC 5322
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5322 as it looked roughly 200 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 5323Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 5324Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 7655Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 5320Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5263Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5279Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5324Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 7655Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 5320Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5263Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5279Spiral19 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).