IC 4461
IC 4461
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
899 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 899 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4461 as it looked roughly 899 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
NGC 5699Elliptical140 million ly
apartIC 961Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 4369Barred spiral150 million ly
apartNGC 5778Elliptical150 million ly
apartIC 4416Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 961Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 4369Barred spiral150 million ly
apartNGC 5778Elliptical150 million ly
apartIC 4416Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral180 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).