IC 2608
IC 2608
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
78 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
18k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2608 as it looked roughly 78 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 2604Barred spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 3395Spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 3396Spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 3442Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3381Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral4.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3395Spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 3396Spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 3442Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3381Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral4.2 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).