IC 4366
IC 4366
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
216 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 216 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4366 as it looked roughly 216 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 5488Spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 4329Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4378Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5357Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4352Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5292Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4329Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4378Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5357Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4352Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5292Spiral20 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).