IC 2783
IC 2783
IC 2783 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 433 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 433 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
433 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 433 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2783 as it looked roughly 433 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 2712Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 2852Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2820Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2930Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2637Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2852Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2820Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2930Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2637Elliptical30 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).