IC 4563
IC 4563
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4563 as it looked roughly 199 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 5966Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6013Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5754Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4500Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4492Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5752Spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6013Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5754Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4500Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4492Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5752Spiral38 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).