IC 1588
IC 1588
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
765 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
154k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 765 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1588 as it looked roughly 765 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 1587Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1573Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular99 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1576Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1573Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular99 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).