IC 284
IC 284
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
156k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 284 as it looked roughly 125 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 1174Barred spiral2.1 million ly
apartNGC 1159Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 1171Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 1160Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 316 NED01Galaxy14 million ly
apartIC 316 NED02Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1159Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 1171Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 1160Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 316 NED01Galaxy14 million ly
apartIC 316 NED02Spiral15 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).