IC 2385
IC 2385
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
319 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 319 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2385 as it looked roughly 319 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 2704Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 2668Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2759Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 527Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2405Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2668Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2759Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 527Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2405Barred spiral39 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).