IC 269
IC 269
IC 269 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 390 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 390 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
390 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 390 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 269 as it looked roughly 390 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 1158Lenticular5.8 million ly
apartNGC 1120Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 272Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1089Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 270Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 1157Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1120Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 272Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1089Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 270Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 1157Barred spiral30 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).