IC 4217
IC 4217
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
325 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 325 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4217 as it looked roughly 325 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 5070Elliptical6.1 million ly
apartNGC 5146Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 5028Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4220Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5203Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 5094Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5146Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 5028Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4220Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5203Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 5094Elliptical34 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).