IC 4853
IC 4853
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4853 as it looked roughly 199 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 4899Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 4887Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4929Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6730Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6876ABarred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4887Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4929Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6730Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6876ABarred 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).