IC 4647
IC 4647
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
234 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 234 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4647 as it looked roughly 234 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 4640Spiral6.0 million ly
apartIC 4641Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4644Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4661Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6557Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4641Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4644Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4661Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6557Lenticular32 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).