IC 536
IC 536
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
381 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 381 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 536 as it looked roughly 381 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 2452Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2451Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2885Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 2472Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 2474Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2477Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2451Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2885Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 2472Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 2474Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2477Lenticular32 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).