IC 1701
IC 1701
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
392 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 392 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1701 as it looked roughly 392 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 719Lenticular59 million ly
apartNGC 794Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 1755Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1775Spiral76 million ly
apartNGC 810 NED01Elliptical77 million ly
apartNGC 606Spiral78 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 794Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 1755Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1775Spiral76 million ly
apartNGC 810 NED01Elliptical77 million ly
apartNGC 606Spiral78 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).