IC 696
IC 696
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
293 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 293 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 696 as it looked roughly 293 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 2867Spiral820,000 ly
apartIC 2853Spiral1.3 million ly
apartIC 2857Spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 698Lenticular2.0 million ly
apartIC 2850Spiral2.0 million ly
apartIC 699Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2853Spiral1.3 million ly
apartIC 2857Spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 698Lenticular2.0 million ly
apartIC 2850Spiral2.0 million ly
apartIC 699Spiral4.3 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).