IC 4694
IC 4694
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4694 as it looked roughly 130 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 6630Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4782Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6707Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4797Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4719Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6305Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4782Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6707Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4797Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4719Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6305Elliptical17 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).