IC 1146
IC 1146
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
368 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 368 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1146 as it looked roughly 368 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 6048Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1216Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1204Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1216Spiral20 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).