IC 4862
IC 4862
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
230 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 230 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4862 as it looked roughly 230 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 4860Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 4859Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4811Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6722Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6784AElliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4970Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4859Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4811Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6722Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6784AElliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4970Elliptical23 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).