IC 4297
IC 4297
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4297 as it looked roughly 354 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 4287 NED01Spiral8.4 million ly
apartIC 4244Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4230Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 909Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4322Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4241Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4244Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4230Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 909Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4322Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4241Elliptical31 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).