IC 1218

IC 1218 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 53 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 14,000 ly, about 14% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,109 km/s.

Because its light is 53 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1218 as it looked roughly 53 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.

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).