NGC 3816
NGC 3816 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 263 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,596 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 263 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3816 as it looked roughly 263 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 3845Lenticular2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3860Spiral4.0 million ly
apartNGC 3859Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 3886Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3873Elliptical13 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).