IC 699
IC 699
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 699 as it looked roughly 288 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 698Lenticular2.3 million ly
apartIC 696Spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 2867Spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 2853Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 2857Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 2850Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 696Spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 2867Spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 2853Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 2857Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 2850Spiral6.3 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).