IC 4623
IC 4623
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
441 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 441 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4623 as it looked roughly 441 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 6265Lenticular45 million ly
apartIC 1224Elliptical45 million ly
apartNGC 6270Galaxy45 million ly
apartNGC 6228Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 6308Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4620Barred spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1224Elliptical45 million ly
apartNGC 6270Galaxy45 million ly
apartNGC 6228Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 6308Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4620Barred spiral50 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).