IC 1515
IC 1515
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1515 as it looked roughly 312 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 7787Lenticular8.4 million ly
apartIC 5352Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 7739Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1522Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7738Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5357Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5352Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 7739Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1522Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7738Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5357Elliptical20 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).