IC 4463
IC 4463
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
517 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 517 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4463 as it looked roughly 517 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 4473 NED02Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 1034Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4443Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 1034Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4443Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical37 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).