IC 4427
IC 4427
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
419 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 419 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4427 as it looked roughly 419 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 4425Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartIC 4423Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED02Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED01Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4462Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4423Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED02Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED01Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4462Barred spiral18 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).