IC 4614
IC 4614
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
459 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 459 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4614 as it looked roughly 459 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 6197Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6196Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6185Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6194Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6126Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 6142Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6196Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6185Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6194Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6126Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 6142Barred spiral29 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).