IC 715NW
IC 715NW
IC 715NW is a galaxy in the constellation Crater about 547 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 547 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
547 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 547 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 715NW as it looked roughly 547 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 3703Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 3776Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 693Spiral67 million ly
apartIC 697Lenticular84 million ly
apartIC 680Barred spiral86 million ly
apartIC 725Elliptical100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3776Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 693Spiral67 million ly
apartIC 697Lenticular84 million ly
apartIC 680Barred spiral86 million ly
apartIC 725Elliptical100 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).