IC 4611
IC 4611
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
417 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 417 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4611 as it looked roughly 417 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 6195Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6166CElliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6166BSpiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6166CElliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical15 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).