IC 4612
IC 4612
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
444 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 444 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4612 as it looked roughly 444 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 4610Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 6166Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6160Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6137Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 6195Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6194Elliptical26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6166Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6160Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6137Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 6195Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6194Elliptical26 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).