IC 2680
IC 2680
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
800 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
184k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 800 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2680 as it looked roughly 800 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 2749Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 2862Elliptical61 million ly
apartIC 2802Galaxy61 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral62 million ly
apartIC 2795Spiral81 million ly
apartIC 2877Barred spiral94 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2862Elliptical61 million ly
apartIC 2802Galaxy61 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral62 million ly
apartIC 2795Spiral81 million ly
apartIC 2877Barred spiral94 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).