IC 4713
IC 4713
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
261 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 261 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4713 as it looked roughly 261 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 4740Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 6502Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4771Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4747Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4752Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4809Galaxy28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6502Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4771Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4747Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4752Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4809Galaxy28 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).