IC 1250
IC 1250
IC 1250 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco about 394 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 68,000 ly, about 68% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 394 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
394 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 394 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1250 as it looked roughly 394 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 6338Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 6370Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6346Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6370Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6346Elliptical19 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).