IC 4697
IC 4697
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4697 as it looked roughly 229 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 6623 NED02Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6619Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6593Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6632Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6571Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6576Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6619Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6593Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6632Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6571Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6576Lenticular19 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).