IC 1244
IC 1244
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
381 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 381 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1244 as it looked roughly 381 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 6367Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6320Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6343Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6301Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6363Elliptical48 million ly
apartNGC 6329Elliptical49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6320Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6343Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6301Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6363Elliptical48 million ly
apartNGC 6329Elliptical49 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).