IC 4494
IC 4494
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
690 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
187k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 690 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4494 as it looked roughly 690 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 4467Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4454Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4466Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 5763Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 4439Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4429Elliptical54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4454Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4466Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 5763Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 4439Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4429Elliptical54 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).