IC 186A
IC 186A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
598 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
210k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 598 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 186A as it looked roughly 598 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 185Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1781Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 758Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 177Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 204Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 880Spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1781Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 758Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 177Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 204Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 880Spiral56 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).