IC 4284
IC 4284
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
853 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
17.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 853 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4284 as it looked roughly 853 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 5391Elliptical72 million ly
apartIC 3909Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 4271 NED01Barred spiral150 million ly
apartNGC 4801Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 922Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 4268Elliptical160 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3909Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 4271 NED01Barred spiral150 million ly
apartNGC 4801Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 922Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 4268Elliptical160 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).