IC 845
IC 845
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
500 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 500 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 845 as it looked roughly 500 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 840Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4752Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5106Barred spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 5100 NED01Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 3731Barred spiral71 million ly
apartIC 3985Spiral82 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4752Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5106Barred spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 5100 NED01Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 3731Barred spiral71 million ly
apartIC 3985Spiral82 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).