NGC 4611
NGC 4611
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
285 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 285 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4611 as it looked roughly 285 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 3500Barred spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 3442Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 3432Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 792Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3638Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3442Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 3432Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 792Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3638Barred spiral23 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).