IC 5197
IC 5197
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
375 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 375 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5197 as it looked roughly 375 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 5190Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 5238Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7205ASpiral42 million ly
apartIC 5280Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 7622Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 5110Spiral54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5238Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7205ASpiral42 million ly
apartIC 5280Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 7622Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 5110Spiral54 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).