IC 1810
IC 1810
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
253 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 253 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1810 as it looked roughly 253 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 954Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 1812Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 889Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 939Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 862Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1796Elliptical18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1812Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 889Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 939Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 862Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1796Elliptical18 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).