IC 263
IC 263
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
394 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 394 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 263 as it looked roughly 394 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 1143Elliptical9.5 million ly
apartNGC 1144Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 1149Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 1072Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 283Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 233Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1144Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 1149Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 1072Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 283Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 233Barred spiral37 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).