IC 4741
IC 4741
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
223 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 223 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4741 as it looked roughly 223 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 4750Lenticular3.9 million ly
apartIC 4745Spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 4784Lenticular6.5 million ly
apartIC 4755Spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 4766Lenticular7.2 million ly
apartIC 4737Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4745Spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 4784Lenticular6.5 million ly
apartIC 4755Spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 4766Lenticular7.2 million ly
apartIC 4737Barred spiral7.4 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).