IC 4933
IC 4933
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
231 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 231 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4933 as it looked roughly 231 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 6850Lenticular2.7 million ly
apartIC 4937Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4995Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4963Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4937Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4995Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4963Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral18 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).