IC 4806
IC 4806
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
209 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
146k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 209 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4806 as it looked roughly 209 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 6721Elliptical3.3 million ly
apartIC 4814Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 4830Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4783Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4793Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4814Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 4830Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4783Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4793Barred spiral14 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).