IC 4617
IC 4617
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
510 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 510 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4617 as it looked roughly 510 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 6179Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 6185Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 6162Lenticular48 million ly
apartNGC 6163Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 6142Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6185Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 6162Lenticular48 million ly
apartNGC 6163Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 6142Barred spiral49 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).