NGC 6479

NGC 6479 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 310 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 85,000 ly, about 85% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 310 million years ago.

Because its light is 310 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6479 as it looked roughly 310 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.

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).