IC 1769
IC 1769
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1769 as it looked roughly 255 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 1762Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1734Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1720Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 824Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 639Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1719Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1734Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1720Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 824Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 639Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1719Lenticular30 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).