IC 4686
IC 4686
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
232 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 232 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4686 as it looked roughly 232 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 4692Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 4689Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 4709Spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 4687Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4722Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4734Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4689Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 4709Spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 4687Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4722Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4734Barred spiral18 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).