IC 1134

IC 1134

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
692 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
175k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 692 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1134 as it looked roughly 692 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 1142Barred spiral46 million ly
apart
IC 1130Barred spiral58 million ly
apart
IC 1162Spiral84 million ly
apart
IC 4588Elliptical120 million ly
apart
IC 1094 NED03Spiral120 million ly
apart
IC 1093Spiral130 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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