IC 5369
IC 5369
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
471 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 471 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5369 as it looked roughly 471 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 5373Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 5370Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5372Galaxy19 million ly
apartIC 5371Galaxy34 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical64 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5370Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5372Galaxy19 million ly
apartIC 5371Galaxy34 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical64 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical65 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).