IC 4809
IC 4809
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
259 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 259 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4809 as it looked roughly 259 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 4771Spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 4794Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6776Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4803Galaxy14 million ly
apartNGC 6784AElliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4760Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4794Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6776Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4803Galaxy14 million ly
apartNGC 6784AElliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4760Lenticular22 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).