IC 4149
IC 4149
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
331 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 331 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4149 as it looked roughly 331 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 841Barred spiral6.8 million ly
apartIC 4202Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 854Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 869 NED01Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4039Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 867Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4202Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 854Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 869 NED01Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4039Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 867Spiral23 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).