NGC 1607
NGC 1607 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 197 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 197 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1607 as it looked roughly 197 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.
apartNGC 1611Lenticular2.6 million ly
apartNGC 1609Lenticular3.7 million ly
apartNGC 1580Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 2080Spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 1599Barred spiral6.7 million ly
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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).