IC 1413
IC 1413
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
232 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 232 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1413 as it looked roughly 232 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 7198Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7257Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1401Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7266Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7288Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1404Elliptical40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7257Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1401Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7266Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7288Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1404Elliptical40 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).