IC 3808
IC 3808
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
17.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3808 as it looked roughly 228 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 3726Spiral7.1 million ly
apartIC 3892Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4868Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4914Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 3795Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 4189Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3892Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4868Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4914Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 3795Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 4189Spiral23 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).