IC 4504
IC 4504
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
462 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 462 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4504 as it looked roughly 462 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 5685Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4505Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 4520Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 4502Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4409Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4505Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 4520Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 4502Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4409Barred spiral48 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).