IC 945
IC 945
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 945 as it looked roughly 420 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 954Spiral6.8 million ly
apartNGC 5415Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5034Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5671Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5314Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5415Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5034Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5671Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5314Spiral30 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).