IC 1192
IC 1192
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
531 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 531 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1192 as it looked roughly 531 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 6057Lenticular5.4 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6061Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6050BSpiral17 million ly
apartIC 1188BSpiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6061Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6050BSpiral17 million ly
apartIC 1188BSpiral19 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).