IC 795
IC 795
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
306 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 306 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 795 as it looked roughly 306 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 791Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3439Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3377Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3300Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3228Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3075Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3439Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3377Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3300Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3228Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3075Spiral17 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).