IC 4811
IC 4811
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
218 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 218 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4811 as it looked roughly 218 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 6722Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartIC 4758Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4745Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4813Galaxy13 million ly
apartIC 4729Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4860Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4758Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4745Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4813Galaxy13 million ly
apartIC 4729Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4860Barred 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).