IC 1622
IC 1622
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
299 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 299 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1622 as it looked roughly 299 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 369Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular15 million ly
apartIC 1670ABarred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 93Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 58Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 487Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1623BIrregular15 million ly
apartIC 1670ABarred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 93Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 58Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 487Barred spiral29 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).