IC 450
IC 450
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
261 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 261 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 450 as it looked roughly 261 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 2256Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 451Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 445Lenticular34 million ly
apartNGC 2908Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 440Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 2179Elliptical70 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 451Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 445Lenticular34 million ly
apartNGC 2908Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 440Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 2179Elliptical70 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).