NGC 1478

NGC 1478 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 465 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 87,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 465 million years ago.

Because its light is 465 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1478 as it looked roughly 465 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).