IC 476
IC 476
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 476 as it looked roughly 222 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 2205Elliptical2.2 million ly
apartNGC 2450Barred spiral2.8 million ly
apartNGC 2449Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 480Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 2487Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2486Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2450Barred spiral2.8 million ly
apartNGC 2449Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 480Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 2487Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2486Barred spiral13 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).