IC 4787
IC 4787
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4787 as it looked roughly 197 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 4789Spiral660,000 ly
apartNGC 6730Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartIC 4773Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6718Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4813Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 6734Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6730Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartIC 4773Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6718Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4813Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 6734Elliptical12 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).