IC 4720
IC 4720
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
98 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 98 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4720 as it looked roughly 98 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 4721Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 4819Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4819Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral20 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).