IC 1279
IC 1279
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
301 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
205k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 301 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1279 as it looked roughly 301 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 6612Galaxy5.5 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6446Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6575Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6640Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6446Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6575Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral37 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).