IC 4065
IC 4065
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
517 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 517 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4065 as it looked roughly 517 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 4056Barred spiral830,000 ly
apartIC 4135Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 4073Spiral7.2 million ly
apartIC 4062Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4108Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4135Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 4073Spiral7.2 million ly
apartIC 4062Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4108Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral14 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).