IC 3795

IC 3795 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 206 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 54,000 ly, about 54% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 206 million years ago.

Because its light is 206 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3795 as it looked roughly 206 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). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).