IC 5043
IC 5043
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
646 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 646 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5043 as it looked roughly 646 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 4947Elliptical77 million ly
apartIC 5095Spiral86 million ly
apartIC 4932Spiral87 million ly
apartIC 4987Spiral93 million ly
apartIC 4925Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 4984Barred spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5095Spiral86 million ly
apartIC 4932Spiral87 million ly
apartIC 4987Spiral93 million ly
apartIC 4925Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 4984Barred spiral100 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).