IC 2786
IC 2786
IC 2786 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 527 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 527 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
527 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
146k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 527 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2786 as it looked roughly 527 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 2799Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 2785Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 2683Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 2727Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2813Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2665Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2785Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 2683Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 2727Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2813Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2665Spiral24 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).