IC 385
IC 385
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 385 as it looked roughly 197 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 1636Spiral5.7 million ly
apartIC 2080Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 1594Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 372Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 1607Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 1611Lenticular11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2080Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 1594Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 372Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 1607Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 1611Lenticular11 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).