IC 1775
IC 1775
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
361 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 361 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1775 as it looked roughly 361 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 810 NED01Elliptical2.1 million ly
apartNGC 810 NED02Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1755Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 213Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 791Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 766Elliptical39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 810 NED02Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1755Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 213Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 791Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 766Elliptical39 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).