IC 4883
IC 4883
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
208 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 208 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4883 as it looked roughly 208 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 6812Lenticular3.7 million ly
apartIC 4884Lenticular9.8 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6848Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4919Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4884Lenticular9.8 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6848Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4919Spiral12 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).