IC 830
IC 830
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 830 as it looked roughly 227 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 4695Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 4669Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4675Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 4644Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 4686Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 4646Elliptical14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4669Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4675Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 4644Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 4686Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 4646Elliptical14 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).