IC 1110
IC 1110
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1110 as it looked roughly 160 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 6135Galaxy22 million ly
apartNGC 5965Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5144 NED02Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5971Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5987Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1210Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5965Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5144 NED02Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5971Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5987Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1210Spiral32 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).