IC 4871
IC 4871
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4871 as it looked roughly 90 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 6810Spiral2.8 million ly
apartIC 4819Spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4986Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4819Spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4986Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral16 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).