IC 1169
IC 1169
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
157 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 157 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1169 as it looked roughly 157 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 1205Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5996Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5994Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6004Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6063Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6186Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5996Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5994Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6004Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6063Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6186Spiral34 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).