NGC 3069
NGC 3069 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 246 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 62,000 ly, about 62% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,296 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 246 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3069 as it looked roughly 246 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 3070Elliptical4.8 million ly
apartNGC 3134Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 548Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 2948Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 552Lenticular30 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).