IC 4500
IC 4500
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4500 as it looked roughly 197 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 4492Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5695Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5754Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5684Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5675Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5695Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5754Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5684Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5675Barred spiral15 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).