IC 368
IC 368
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
290 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 290 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 368 as it looked roughly 290 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 1686Barred spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 1470Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 388 NED01Galaxy49 million ly
apartNGC 1467Lenticular51 million ly
apartIC 380Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 2104Barred spiral54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1470Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 388 NED01Galaxy49 million ly
apartNGC 1467Lenticular51 million ly
apartIC 380Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 2104Barred spiral54 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).