IC 1263
IC 1263
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
404 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
192k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 404 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1263 as it looked roughly 404 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 6363Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6332Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6336Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6343Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6329Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 6301Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6332Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6336Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6343Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6329Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 6301Spiral35 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).