IC 4415
IC 4415
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
794 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 794 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4415 as it looked roughly 794 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 1015 NED01Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4428Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1015 NED02Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4419Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 4417Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 4433Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4428Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1015 NED02Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4419Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 4417Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 4433Barred spiral48 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).