IC 3786
IC 3786
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
768 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 768 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3786 as it looked roughly 768 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 3697Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3746Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 3890Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 3751Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3904Spiral46 million ly
apartIC 3893Barred spiral46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3746Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 3890Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 3751Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3904Spiral46 million ly
apartIC 3893Barred spiral46 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).