IC 4630
IC 4630
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
485 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 485 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4630 as it looked roughly 485 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 6263Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6269Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 6272Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6228Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6271Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6269Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 6272Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6228Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6271Elliptical16 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).