IC 800
IC 800
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
109 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 109 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 800 as it looked roughly 109 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 4501Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apartIC 3365Irregular3.9 million ly
apartNGC 4473Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartIC 3298Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 4351Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 4607Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3365Irregular3.9 million ly
apartNGC 4473Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartIC 3298Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 4351Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 4607Barred spiral7.6 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).