NGC 7204A

NGC 7204A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 121 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 33,000 ly, about 33% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 121 million years ago.

Because its light is 121 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7204A as it looked roughly 121 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). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).