IC 4082
IC 4082
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
629 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 629 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4082 as it looked roughly 629 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 4123Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 4184Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 3820Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 3816Elliptical67 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4104Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 4184Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 3820Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 3816Elliptical67 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).