IC 2727
IC 2727
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
544 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 544 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2727 as it looked roughly 544 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 2683Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 2720Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 2645Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 2746Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 2665Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2777Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2720Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 2645Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 2746Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 2665Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2777Barred spiral16 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).