IC 864
IC 864
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
555 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
17.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 555 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 864 as it looked roughly 555 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 3985Spiral42 million ly
apartIC 3882Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 3880Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 4250Spiral68 million ly
apartIC 4172Barred spiral77 million ly
apartIC 846Elliptical81 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3882Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 3880Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 4250Spiral68 million ly
apartIC 4172Barred spiral77 million ly
apartIC 846Elliptical81 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).