IC 4244
IC 4244
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
337 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 337 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4244 as it looked roughly 337 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 4230Spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 4241Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 4287 NED01Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4297Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 854Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4202Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4241Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 4287 NED01Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4297Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 854Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4202Barred spiral24 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).