IC 4620
IC 4620
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
484 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 484 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4620 as it looked roughly 484 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 1224Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4619Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6243Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 6233Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 6201Galaxy47 million ly
apartIC 1219Lenticular48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4619Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6243Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 6233Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 6201Galaxy47 million ly
apartIC 1219Lenticular48 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).