IC 544
IC 544
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
352 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 352 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 544 as it looked roughly 352 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 2927Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2931Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2929Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2991Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 2994Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 2988Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2931Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2929Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2991Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 2994Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 2988Barred spiral24 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).