The sky around IC 4485 at true scale, north up and east left, with stars to magnitude 8 and the NGC and IC objects in the field. The circles show the field of a low-power eyepiece and of 10×50 binoculars.
IC 4485 is a barred spiral galaxy in Bootes, 664 million light-years away
IC 4485 (PGC 052419) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Bootes, 664 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 15.0 and spans 38″ × 18″ of sky, about 123,600 light-years across. It is faint: a 10-inch or larger telescope, or a camera, and it is highest in the evening sky in June.
Galaxy: a system of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity, far outside the Milky Way. Spiral galaxies have a disk with arms; elliptical galaxies are smooth, round or oval swarms of older stars.
Finding IC 4485 from Izar
IC 4485 lies 1.9° northwest of Izar, the magnitude 2.4 star. That is within one binocular field.
IC 4485 is highest in the evening in June
The chart gives its height above the horizon at 9 pm through the year, from 60°N to 40°S. It can be seen from the whole northern hemisphere and south to about 61°S, and never sets north of 61°N.
IC 4485 is 664 million light-years away
The light seen from IC 4485 tonight left it about 664 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023).
Objects within 6° of IC 4485
83 NGC and IC objects lie within 6°. The nearest that are brighter than magnitude 12.5 or have their own page:
