IC 1832
IC 1832
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
470 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 470 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1832 as it looked roughly 470 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 1054Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1854Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 1806Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 1803Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 1802Elliptical46 million ly
apartIC 1804Elliptical46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1854Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 1806Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 1803Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 1802Elliptical46 million ly
apartIC 1804Elliptical46 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).