IC 4209
IC 4209
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
313 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 313 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4209 as it looked roughly 313 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
NGC 5036Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5133Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 5203Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 5070Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4229Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5028Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5133Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 5203Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 5070Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 4229Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5028Elliptical34 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).