IC 65
IC 65
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 65 as it looked roughly 122 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 620Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 573Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1138Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 1169Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 1160Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 1159Spiral45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 573Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1138Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 1169Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 1160Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 1159Spiral45 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).