IC 1748
IC 1748
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
527 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 527 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1748 as it looked roughly 527 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 212Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 1780Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 1777Elliptical75 million ly
apartIC 189Barred spiral76 million ly
apartNGC 606Spiral83 million ly
apartIC 1742Spiral84 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1780Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 1777Elliptical75 million ly
apartIC 189Barred spiral76 million ly
apartNGC 606Spiral83 million ly
apartIC 1742Spiral84 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).