IC 4794
IC 4794
IC 4794 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pavo about 247 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 247 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
247 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 247 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4794 as it looked roughly 247 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 4803Galaxy2.9 million ly
apartIC 4760Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4809Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 4752Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4779Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4771Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4760Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4809Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 4752Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4779Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4771Spiral16 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).