IC 4228
IC 4228
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
468 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 468 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4228 as it looked roughly 468 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 4234Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 846Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4172Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4081Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 906Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 914Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 846Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4172Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4081Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 906Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 914Spiral44 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).