IC 2469
IC 2469
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
77 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 77 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2469 as it looked roughly 77 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
IC 2507Irregular19 million ly
apartNGC 2613Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 2563Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2559Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2566Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2665Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2613Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 2563Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2559Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2566Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2665Spiral22 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).