IC 527
IC 527
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
325 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 325 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 527 as it looked roughly 325 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 2759Elliptical1.7 million ly
apartIC 2434Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2459Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2456Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2434Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2459Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2456Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral19 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).