IC 4450
IC 4450
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4450 as it looked roughly 422 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 spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED02Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4460Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED01Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4427Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4422Elliptical18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1008 NED02Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4460Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED01Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4427Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4422Elliptical18 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).