IC 2185
IC 2185
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
217 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 217 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2185 as it looked roughly 217 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
NGC 2410Barred spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 2196Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 2199Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2201Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2393Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2204Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2196Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 2199Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2201Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2393Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2204Spiral16 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).