IC 4564
IC 4564
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
281 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 281 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4564 as it looked roughly 281 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 5947Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartIC 4565Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5943Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4567Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4562Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5914Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4565Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5943Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4567Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4562Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5914Spiral20 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).