IC 4495
IC 4495
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
546 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 546 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4495 as it looked roughly 546 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 5748Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4418Elliptical55 million ly
apartNGC 5594Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 4405Lenticular67 million ly
apartNGC 5508Lenticular70 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4418Elliptical55 million ly
apartNGC 5594Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 4405Lenticular67 million ly
apartNGC 5508Lenticular70 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).