NGC 1819
NGC 1819 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Orion about 208 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 93,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,826 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 208 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1819 as it looked roughly 208 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.
apartIC 413Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 412Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1691Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 1762Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 1713Elliptical24 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).