IC 4719
IC 4719
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
145 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 145 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4719 as it looked roughly 145 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 4717Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 4796Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4810Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4817Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6753Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4782Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4796Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4810Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4817Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6753Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4782Spiral14 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).