IC 4319
IC 4319
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
220 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 220 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4319 as it looked roughly 220 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 4326Spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 5328Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartIC 4321Barred spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 4329Elliptical9.8 million ly
apartIC 4290Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5330Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5328Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartIC 4321Barred spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 4329Elliptical9.8 million ly
apartIC 4290Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5330Elliptical12 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).