IC 1500
IC 1500
IC 1500 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 463 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 63,000 ly, about 63% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 463 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
463 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 463 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1500 as it looked roughly 463 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 1506Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 7575Lenticular34 million ly
apartNGC 7603Barred spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 5287Barred spiral57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7575Lenticular34 million ly
apartNGC 7603Barred spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 5287Barred spiral57 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).