IC 1192

IC 1192

IC 1192 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 531 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 11,547 km/s.

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
11,547 km/s
receding (RC3)

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
apart
IC 1191 NED01Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 1194Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 6061Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 6050BSpiral17 million ly
apart
IC 1188BSpiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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