IC 4049
IC 4049
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
391 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 391 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4049 as it looked roughly 391 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 4028Spiral1.5 million ly
apartIC 3966Spiral4.7 million ly
apartIC 4034Spiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 3967Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartIC 4038Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 4774 NED01Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3966Spiral4.7 million ly
apartIC 4034Spiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 3967Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartIC 4038Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 4774 NED01Barred spiral11 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).