IC 2405
IC 2405
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2405 as it looked roughly 355 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 2668Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 2400Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2434Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2755Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2400Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2434Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2755Barred spiral36 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).