IC 1619
IC 1619
IC 1619 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 219 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 219 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
219 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1619 as it looked roughly 219 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 392Elliptical890,000 ly
apartIC 1618Lenticular3.0 million ly
apartNGC 414 NED01Lenticular3.7 million ly
apartIC 1638Elliptical5.1 million ly
apartNGC 387Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartNGC 443Lenticular7.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1618Lenticular3.0 million ly
apartNGC 414 NED01Lenticular3.7 million ly
apartIC 1638Elliptical5.1 million ly
apartNGC 387Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartNGC 443Lenticular7.4 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).