IC 4547
IC 4547
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
480 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 480 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4547 as it looked roughly 480 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 4546Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 4572Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4559Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4556Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4569Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4561Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4572Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4559Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4556Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4569Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4561Barred 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).