IC 4826
IC 4826
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
161 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 161 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4826 as it looked roughly 161 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 4832Spiral1.8 million ly
apartNGC 6758Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartIC 4844Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartIC 4807Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 6780Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 6699Spiral8.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6758Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartIC 4844Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartIC 4807Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 6780Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 6699Spiral8.0 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).