IC 826
IC 826
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
318 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 318 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 826 as it looked roughly 318 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 821Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 4676ALenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4676BLenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4841AElliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4032Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4719Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4676ALenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4676BLenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4841AElliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4032Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4719Barred spiral17 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).