IC 2054
IC 2054
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
958 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 958 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2054 as it looked roughly 958 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 2012 NED01Lenticular330 million ly
apartIC 1996Spiral350 million ly
apartIC 5103Barred spiral350 million ly
apartIC 1999Barred spiral360 million ly
apartIC 1965Spiral370 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral380 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1996Spiral350 million ly
apartIC 5103Barred spiral350 million ly
apartIC 1999Barred spiral360 million ly
apartIC 1965Spiral370 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral380 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).