IC 5174
IC 5174
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
514 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 514 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5174 as it looked roughly 514 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 5175Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7297Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular53 million ly
apartNGC 7382Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 7355Barred spiral77 million ly
apartNGC 7178Spiral79 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7297Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular53 million ly
apartNGC 7382Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 7355Barred spiral77 million ly
apartNGC 7178Spiral79 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).