IC 1679
IC 1679
IC 1679 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 248 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 43,000 ly, about 43% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 248 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
248 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 248 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1679 as it looked roughly 248 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 472Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 1677Spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 536Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 508Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 494Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 566Lenticular9.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1677Spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 536Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 508Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 494Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 566Lenticular9.7 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).