IC 4653
IC 4653
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4653 as it looked roughly 84 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 6215Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6221Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4819Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4721Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6221Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4819Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4721Barred spiral24 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).