IC 4283
IC 4283
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
423 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 423 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4283 as it looked roughly 423 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 4313Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4317Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4314Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 4332Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 913Barred spiral42 million ly
apartIC 916Elliptical44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4317Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4314Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 4332Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 913Barred spiral42 million ly
apartIC 916Elliptical44 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).