IC 4123
IC 4123
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
618 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 618 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4123 as it looked roughly 618 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 4082Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical44 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 3820Spiral57 million ly
apartIC 3816Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 3772Barred spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4104Elliptical44 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 3820Spiral57 million ly
apartIC 3816Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 3772Barred spiral64 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).