IC 4777
IC 4777
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
258 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 258 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4777 as it looked roughly 258 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 6761Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4761Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4786Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4709Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4687Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4876Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4761Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4786Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4709Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4687Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4876Spiral34 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).