IC 1174
IC 1174
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
219 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1174 as it looked roughly 219 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 6073Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6021Elliptical8.2 million ly
apartIC 1149Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6030Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1196Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6028Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6021Elliptical8.2 million ly
apartIC 1149Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6030Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1196Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6028Lenticular20 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).