NGC 1286

NGC 1286 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 201 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 201 million years ago.

Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1286 as it looked roughly 201 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).