IC 4836
IC 4836
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4836 as it looked roughly 200 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 4827Spiral4.0 million ly
apartNGC 6739Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartIC 4842Elliptical6.4 million ly
apartIC 4838Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 4830Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 6771Lenticular8.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6739Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartIC 4842Elliptical6.4 million ly
apartIC 4838Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 4830Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 6771Lenticular8.3 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).