IC 4227
IC 4227
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
322 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 322 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4227 as it looked roughly 322 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
NGC 5131Spiral8.1 million ly
apartIC 883Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4256Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4238Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4242Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5187Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 883Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4256Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4238Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4242Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5187Barred spiral18 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).