IC 4597
IC 4597
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
204 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 204 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4597 as it looked roughly 204 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 4598Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5843Barred spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 5968Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 4523Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral66 million ly
apartIC 4464Lenticular72 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5843Barred spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 5968Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 4523Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral66 million ly
apartIC 4464Lenticular72 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).