IC 4474
IC 4474
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
437 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 437 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4474 as it looked roughly 437 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 4475Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartIC 4462Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4498Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1052Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5710Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4462Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4498Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1052Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5710Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral30 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).