IC 1926
IC 1926
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1926 as it looked roughly 199 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 2065Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2073Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 1567Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 1558Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 1595Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 1570Elliptical45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2073Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 1567Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 1558Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 1595Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 1570Elliptical45 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).