IC 2749
IC 2749
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
832 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 832 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2749 as it looked roughly 832 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 2680Lenticular41 million ly
apartIC 2862Elliptical82 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral88 million ly
apartIC 2802Galaxy91 million ly
apartIC 2909Galaxy96 million ly
apartIC 2795Spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2862Elliptical82 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral88 million ly
apartIC 2802Galaxy91 million ly
apartIC 2909Galaxy96 million ly
apartIC 2795Spiral110 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).