I was reprocessing some old data, and I went down a rabbit hole finding all the galaxies and their distances. I wasn’t able to find all of them, but it’s just mind-blowing to me that I was able to look 1.6 Billion years back in time with a backyard telescope and a Canon camera.
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy – 23.5Mly
NGC 5195 – 25 Mly
IC 4278 – 245 Mly
IC 4263 – 140 Mly
PGC2286797 – 110Mly
PGC2289565 – 1.1Bly
PGC2294282 – 1.6 Bly
PGC2300341 – 900Mly
PGC2287260 – 900Mly
So the Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51, is approximately 23 million light-years away from Earth, that translates to roughly 1.38 x 10^19 miles.