IC 1229
IC 1229
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
920 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 920 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1229 as it looked roughly 920 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 4560Lenticular260 million ly
apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical270 million ly
apartNGC 5896Spiral290 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED01Elliptical300 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED02Elliptical310 million ly
apartNGC 6290Spiral360 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical270 million ly
apartNGC 5896Spiral290 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED01Elliptical300 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED02Elliptical310 million ly
apartNGC 6290Spiral360 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).