IC 633
IC 633
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
259 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 259 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 633 as it looked roughly 259 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 3325Elliptical2.1 million ly
apartIC 632Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apartIC 653Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 609Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3243Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 603Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 632Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apartIC 653Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 609Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3243Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 603Barred spiral33 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).