IC 4077
IC 4077
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
328 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 328 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4077 as it looked roughly 328 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 4158Spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 3921Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4662Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5083Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 3897Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3921Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4662Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5083Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 3897Spiral24 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).