IC 4696
IC 4696
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
220 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 220 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4696 as it looked roughly 220 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 4698Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartIC 4745Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 4741Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6614Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4755Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4714Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4745Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 4741Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6614Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4755Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4714Spiral12 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).