IC 4869
IC 4869
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4869 as it looked roughly 84 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 6810Spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 4819Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 5028Irregular15 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4819Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 5028Irregular15 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral20 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).