IC 2247
IC 2247
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2247 as it looked roughly 200 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 2248Spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 2554Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartIC 497Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 2595Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2536Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2293Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2554Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartIC 497Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 2595Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2536Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2293Barred 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).