IC 1112
IC 1112
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
472 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 472 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1112 as it looked roughly 472 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 5940Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5941Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 5944Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1087Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 1089Elliptical45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5941Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 5944Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1087Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 1089Elliptical45 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).