IC 4833
IC 4833
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · S?
168 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 168 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4833 as it looked roughly 168 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 4828Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 4767Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 6769Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4764Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6776ABarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6706Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4767Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 6769Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4764Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6776ABarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6706Elliptical11 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).