IC 4740
IC 4740
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
265 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 265 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4740 as it looked roughly 265 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 4713Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 4747Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6502Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4771Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6784AElliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 6776Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4747Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6502Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4771Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6784AElliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 6776Elliptical29 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).