IC 3690
IC 3690
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3690 as it looked roughly 354 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 817Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 3670Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3608Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3467Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 3481Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 816Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3670Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3608Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3467Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 3481Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 816Spiral22 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).