IC 4301
IC 4301
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
332 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 332 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4301 as it looked roughly 332 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 5223Elliptical9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5199Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 4305Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5187Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5157Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4306Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5199Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 4305Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5187Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5157Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4306Spiral16 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).