IC 2942
IC 2942
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
447 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 447 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2942 as it looked roughly 447 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 2930Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2820Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2852Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2914Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 2936Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2783Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2820Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2852Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2914Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 2936Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2783Spiral37 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).