NGC 4217
NGC 4217
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
48 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 48 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4217 as it looked roughly 48 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 4100Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3953Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3992Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4145Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 4369Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3729Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3953Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3992Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4145Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 4369Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3729Spiral7.5 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).