IC 4909
IC 4909
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
351 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 351 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4909 as it looked roughly 351 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 4914Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 6845DLenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 6845CLenticular37 million ly
apartNGC 6845BBarred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular42 million ly
apartIC 4894Galaxy44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6845DLenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 6845CLenticular37 million ly
apartNGC 6845BBarred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular42 million ly
apartIC 4894Galaxy44 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).