IC 849
IC 849
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
253 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 253 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 849 as it looked roughly 253 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 850Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 4996Lenticular8.3 million ly
apartIC 4224Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4999Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5104Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4975Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4996Lenticular8.3 million ly
apartIC 4224Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4999Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5104Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4975Lenticular18 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).