IC 2211
IC 2211
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
249 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2211 as it looked roughly 249 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 2532Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2217Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2219Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2214Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2193Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2207Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2217Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2219Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2214Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2193Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2207Barred spiral27 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).