IC 4512
IC 4512
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
415 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 415 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4512 as it looked roughly 415 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 4514Spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 4498Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4462Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4460Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4530Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4498Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4462Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4460Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4530Barred spiral33 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).