IC 4492
IC 4492
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4492 as it looked roughly 192 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 4500Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5684Lenticular5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 5695Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5675Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5754Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5684Lenticular5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 5695Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5675Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5754Barred spiral11 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).