IC 4964
IC 4964
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4964 as it looked roughly 148 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 5071Spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 6943Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6808Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4962Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4934Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4960Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6943Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6808Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4962Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4934Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4960Lenticular16 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).