Menu

IC 4718 — Galaxy in Pavo

Galaxy Fair (39/100)

Barred Spiral

Magnitude 12.9m Galaxy Pavo (Pav) Visible
Star Map
+ List + Plan Star Hop

Observe

1Properties

Magnitude 12.95
Angular Size 1.7′ × 0.8′
Position Angle 116°
Distance 176.55 million ly
Galaxy Type Barred Spiral (Sab)
cB, S, E 125deg , B, stell N

Position & Identifiers

RA 18h 33m 48.0s
Dec -60° 07' 60.0"
Constellation Pavo (Pav)
Catalog IC 4718

2How easy to spot?

Sign in and configure your equipment and default location to see a personalized row.
Telescope Bortle 3 Bortle 4 Bortle 5
80mm refr. V. hard+ V. hard V. hard
150mm Newt. Hard+ Hard V. hard+
C8 203mm Hard+ Hard+ Hard
Easy Medium Hard Very hard Impossible

Bortle 3 = rural · 4 = outer suburbs · 5 = suburbs

Medium on Seestar S50

3Visibility

Set a location in User Settings to see visibility data.

Best season May – Jul (peak: Jun)

4 Eyepiece View

Log in to set your own equipment
125x TFOV: 0.4° Lim. mag: 13.6
N E

IC 4718 · 1.7′×0.8′ · N up, E left

5 Best Magnification

Explore

6 Surface Brightness

7 Morphology Decoder

8 Inclination & True Shape

9 Redshift

10 Size Comparator

Discover

11

Light Travel Time Machine

12

Relativistic Travel

Nearby in the Sky

Other targets within a few degrees — pan your scope a little and keep exploring.

Visibility scores assume a 150 mm Newton at Bortle 4.

Xi Pav
Medium
Easy double, sep 3.7″
Double Star mag 4.36 1.9° Pavo
IC 4753
Hard
Elliptical galaxy
Galaxy mag 12.88 2.3° Pavo
NGC 6673
Medium
Elliptical galaxy
Galaxy mag 11.72 2.6° Pavo
IC 4731
Hard+
Bright spiral galaxy
Galaxy mag 12.69 2.9° Pavo
NGC 6614
Hard+
Elliptical galaxy
Galaxy mag 12.95 3.3° Pavo
C93
NGC 6752
Easy
Large bright globular cluster
Globular Cluster mag 5.4 4.6° Pavo
Kappa Pav
Medium+
Variable star, range 3.9–4.8
Variable Star mag 4.44 7.5° Pavo
Show on Map

Explore Nightbase

Related knowledge, tools, and stories — no observation planning required.

William Parsons
Built the Leviathan of Parsonstown; first to resolve spiral structure of nebulae
Biography
Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium
The Hubble tuning fork, Tully-Fisher distances, metallicity, Wolf-Rayet stars, HII regions, interstellar dust, the 21-cm hydrogen line, and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect — the working toolkit astronomers use to read galaxies and the stuff between their stars.
Article
Pavo
Mythology, bright stars, and deep-sky highlights.
Constellation
}