IC 4465
IC 4465
IC 4465 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 759 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 759 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
759 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 759 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4465 as it looked roughly 759 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 NED02Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4433Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4428Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4434Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4419Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4438Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4433Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4428Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4434Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4419Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4438Barred spiral35 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).