IC 2365
IC 2365
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
282 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 282 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2365 as it looked roughly 282 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 2540Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 2239Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 2393Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 493Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2394Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2382Lenticular29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2239Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 2393Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 493Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2394Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2382Lenticular29 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).