IC 5206
IC 5206
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
305k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 5206 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 5129Spiral260 million ly
apartIC 5103Barred spiral280 million ly
apartIC 5091Spiral280 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral340 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral370 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral380 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5103Barred spiral280 million ly
apartIC 5091Spiral280 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral340 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral370 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral380 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).