IC 1076
IC 1076
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
283 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 283 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1076 as it looked roughly 283 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 1075Barred spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 5760Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 1097Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5760Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 1097Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral25 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).