IC 504
IC 504
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
194 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 194 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 504 as it looked roughly 194 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 2561Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 503Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 2538Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 502Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 2555Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2618Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 503Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 2538Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 502Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 2555Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2618Spiral17 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).