IC 4923
IC 4923
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4923 as it looked roughly 312 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 4983Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6845BBarred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6845CLenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 6845ABarred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5012Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4944Lenticular37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6845BBarred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6845CLenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 6845ABarred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5012Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4944Lenticular37 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).