IC 4692
IC 4692
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4692 as it looked roughly 227 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 4686Galaxy5.8 million ly
apartIC 4722Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4689Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4709Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4702Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4734Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4722Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4689Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4709Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4702Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4734Barred spiral15 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).