IC 5233
IC 5233
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
344 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 344 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5233 as it looked roughly 344 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 5243Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5242Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7321Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7357Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5242Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7321Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7357Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical29 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).