IC 2633
IC 2633
IC 2633 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 533 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 96,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 533 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
533 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 533 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2633 as it looked roughly 533 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 2665Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 2645Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartIC 2683Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 2727Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 2720Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 2786Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2645Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartIC 2683Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 2727Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 2720Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 2786Spiral29 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).