IC 515
IC 515
IC 515 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 418 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 418 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
418 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 418 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 515 as it looked roughly 418 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 2616Lenticular8.7 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical52 million ly
apartIC 505Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 506Elliptical59 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 517Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical52 million ly
apartIC 505Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 506Elliptical59 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).