IC 2607
IC 2607
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
458 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 458 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2607 as it looked roughly 458 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 2617Lenticular38 million ly
apartIC 2616Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 3542Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 3545AElliptical51 million ly
apartIC 2619Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 2620Lenticular61 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2616Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 3542Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 3545AElliptical51 million ly
apartIC 2619Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 2620Lenticular61 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).