NGC 1613
NGC 1613 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 211 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 211 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 211 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1613 as it looked roughly 211 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 1610Spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 1604Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 1594Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1609Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 1600Elliptical11 million ly
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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).