IC 2428
IC 2428
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2428 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
NGC 2766Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 2439Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 2421Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 2649Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2862Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2926Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2439Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 2421Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 2649Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2862Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2926Barred 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).