IC 4753
IC 4753
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
178 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 178 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4753 as it looked roughly 178 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 6706Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartIC 4764Spiral6.8 million ly
apartIC 4718Spiral7.2 million ly
apartIC 4828Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4785Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4788Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4764Spiral6.8 million ly
apartIC 4718Spiral7.2 million ly
apartIC 4828Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4785Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4788Spiral12 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).