IC 1695

IC 1695 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 701 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 380,000 ly, about 3.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 14,505 km/s.

Because its light is 701 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1695 as it looked roughly 701 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).