IC 1468
IC 1468
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
455 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 455 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1468 as it looked roughly 455 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 1466Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5287Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7603Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral53 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular56 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral62 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5287Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7603Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral53 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular56 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral62 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).