IC 599
IC 599
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
242 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 242 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 599 as it looked roughly 242 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 3110Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3142Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 597Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 603Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3064Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 609Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3142Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 597Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 603Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3064Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 609Barred spiral26 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).