IC 4118
IC 4118
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
521 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 521 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4118 as it looked roughly 521 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 4108Elliptical2.8 million ly
apartIC 4103Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 4127Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4065Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4056Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4073Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4103Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 4127Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4065Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4056Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4073Spiral15 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).