IC 1964
IC 1964
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
795 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 795 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1964 as it looked roughly 795 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 1965Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 1920Lenticular58 million ly
apartIC 1999Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1945Lenticular63 million ly
apartIC 1951Barred spiral70 million ly
apartIC 1996Spiral77 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1920Lenticular58 million ly
apartIC 1999Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1945Lenticular63 million ly
apartIC 1951Barred spiral70 million ly
apartIC 1996Spiral77 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).