IC 2454
IC 2454
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
401 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 401 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2454 as it looked roughly 401 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 2795Elliptical2.0 million ly
apartNGC 2791Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartNGC 2794Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 2802Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 2774Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 2813Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2791Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartNGC 2794Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 2802Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 2774Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 2813Lenticular16 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).