IC 4368
IC 4368
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
522 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 522 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4368 as it looked roughly 522 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 4372Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 4360Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4354Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral64 million ly
apartNGC 5309Galaxy69 million ly
apartNGC 5555Barred spiral89 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4360Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4354Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral64 million ly
apartNGC 5309Galaxy69 million ly
apartNGC 5555Barred spiral89 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).