IC 1548
IC 1548
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1548 as it looked roughly 268 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 80Elliptical3.9 million ly
apartNGC 85BBarred spiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 1543Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 1545Galaxy5.4 million ly
apartIC 1544Spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 94Galaxy7.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 85BBarred spiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 1543Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 1545Galaxy5.4 million ly
apartIC 1544Spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 94Galaxy7.6 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).