IC 4200
IC 4200
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
183 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 183 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4200 as it looked roughly 183 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 4312Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 4311Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4785Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5234Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 5082Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 5091Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4311Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4785Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5234Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 5082Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 5091Barred spiral28 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).