IC 1385
IC 1385
IC 1385 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 720 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 720 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
720 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
18.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 720 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1385 as it looked roughly 720 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 1370Galaxy60 million ly
apartIC 1366Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 1362Elliptical68 million ly
apartIC 1365 NED01Elliptical72 million ly
apartIC 1365 NED02Galaxy81 million ly
apartIC 1379Galaxy130 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1366Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 1362Elliptical68 million ly
apartIC 1365 NED01Elliptical72 million ly
apartIC 1365 NED02Galaxy81 million ly
apartIC 1379Galaxy130 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).