IC 818
IC 818
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
217 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 217 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 818 as it looked roughly 217 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 4738Spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 3600Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 4865Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 3651Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 3973Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4894Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3600Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 4865Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 3651Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 3973Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4894Lenticular13 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).