IC 4453
IC 4453
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
166 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 166 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4453 as it looked roughly 166 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 4501Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5726Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 1077Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4421Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 5302Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5766Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5726Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 1077Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4421Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 5302Lenticular30 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).