IC 2561
IC 2561
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
210 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 210 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2561 as it looked roughly 210 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 2550Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2942Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 2926Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 3074Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2922Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2942Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 2926Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 3074Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2922Spiral33 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).