IC 1932

IC 1932

IC 1932 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Horologium about 563 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 11,966 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
563 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
154k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
11,966 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 563 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1932 as it looked roughly 563 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 1936Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1356Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 1916Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 1946Lenticular25 million ly
apart
IC 1947Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 1958Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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