IC 4124
IC 4124
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
940 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 940 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4124 as it looked roughly 940 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 4185 NED01Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4181Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4183Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 4162Barred spiral53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4181Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4183Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 4162Barred spiral53 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).