IC 4163
IC 4163
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
895 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 895 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4163 as it looked roughly 895 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 4175Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 4162Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 4122Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4128Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4162Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 4122Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4128Barred spiral23 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).