IC 494
IC 494
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
213 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 213 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 494 as it looked roughly 213 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 2555Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 2485Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2526Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 503Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 2590Spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2485Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2526Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 503Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 2590Spiral27 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).