IC 4468
IC 4468
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
114 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 114 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4468 as it looked roughly 114 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 5744Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5597Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5595Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5903Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4536Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5757Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5597Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5595Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5903Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4536Barred spiral19 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).