IC 2022
IC 2022
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
316 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2022 as it looked roughly 316 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 2060Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 1463Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2070Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2014Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral52 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1463Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2070Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2014Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral52 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).