IC 1097
IC 1097
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
285 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 285 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1097 as it looked roughly 285 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 1076Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1075Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1096Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 5760Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5829Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1075Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1096Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 5760Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5829Spiral29 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).