IC 4687
IC 4687
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
244 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 244 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4687 as it looked roughly 244 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 4689Spiral3.9 million ly
apartIC 4709Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4686Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 4692Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4722Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4672Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4709Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4686Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 4692Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4722Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4672Spiral23 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).