NGC 3385
NGC 3385 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 362 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,818 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3385 as it looked roughly 362 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 3337Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 3341Galaxy22 million ly
apartNGC 3326Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3509Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3349Barred spiral26 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).