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IC 4628

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When IC 4628 is up, how long it stays usable and when it is in season all depend on where you observe from. Set your site and this page adds tonight's answer and its year.

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The science

What you are looking at

The facts

IC 4628 is an object in Scorpius. SIMBAD gives its distance as 2,000 pc (−302 pc / +302 pc) — ≈ 7,000 ly, measured by calcium absorption lines in its light from 1 measurement. The light reaching us from it now left it about 7,000 years ago, around the end of the last ice age. On the sky it spans 89′ — 2.9 times the full Moon. At that distance, that angle means it is roughly 181 light-years across.

Sources: AstroBrain catalogue; CDS/SIMBAD astronomical database, Strasbourg (SIMBAD record HD 152723 · distance from 2009A&A...507..833M). Contains information from SIMBAD, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Download the SIMBAD-derived data.

For scale

Full Moon · 31′IC 4628 · 89′
Angular size, as it would sit on your sky.

181 ly

across — 42× the distance from the Sun to its nearest neighbour star (4.37 ly).

The same patch of sky in visible light

  • Sky image

    Observatory photos and open-licence sky surveys.

    Credits on each image.

Neighbours in the sky

  • Barnard 480.8° away
  • NGC 62421.0° away
  • NGC 62681.2° away
  • NGC 62311.5° away
  • Barnard 44a2.3° away
  • Barnard 2322.6° away

Sky maths: apparent positions with refraction, one-minute steps; usable = full astronomical dark, at least 30° up and clear of your skyline. Survey images: CDS, Strasbourg (DSS2 and other surveys). Science: SIMBAD. The hours, heights and Moon on this page use no weather forecast; the rank is this target’s place in the Targets list, whose score also counts the cloud forecast when there is one.

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