IC 4518B
IC 4518B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
217 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 217 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4518B as it looked roughly 217 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 4523Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4518ASpiral15 million ly
apartIC 4527Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4445Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4464Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 5516Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4518ASpiral15 million ly
apartIC 4527Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4445Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4464Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 5516Elliptical34 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).