IC 535
IC 535
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
769 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 769 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 535 as it looked roughly 769 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 519Elliptical160 million ly
apartNGC 2696Elliptical190 million ly
apartNGC 2975Elliptical220 million ly
apartBrowningIrregular220 million ly
apartIC 2431 NED01Spiral220 million ly
apartNGC 2734Lenticular250 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2696Elliptical190 million ly
apartNGC 2975Elliptical220 million ly
apartBrowningIrregular220 million ly
apartIC 2431 NED01Spiral220 million ly
apartNGC 2734Lenticular250 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).