IC 4819
IC 4819
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
86 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 86 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4819 as it looked roughly 86 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 4869Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral7.7 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4653Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4871Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral7.7 million ly
apartIC 4720Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4901Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4653Lenticular19 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).