IC 2209
IC 2209
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
16k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2209 as it looked roughly 67 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 2460Spiral670,000 ly
apartNGC 2654Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 2768Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 2742Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2820ASpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2820Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2654Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 2768Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 2742Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2820ASpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2820Barred spiral12 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).