IC 4517
IC 4517
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
248 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 248 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4517 as it looked roughly 248 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 5829Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5702Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 4534Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 5637Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5857Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5702Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 4534Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 5637Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5857Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral31 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).