IC 601
IC 601
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
23k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 601 as it looked roughly 170 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 602Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 2987Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3075Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3434Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3042Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 2939Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2987Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3075Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3434Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3042Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 2939Barred spiral32 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).