How would speed of light travel affect the view of a planet?

[Jessica]

Specifically, how would speed of light travel affect the view of a planet hundreds of light years away if I were to be headed directly toward it?
The hypothetical being this: I have a clear view of a planet, say, 200 light years from earth. It is to a point where I can see surface detail similar to what images we can see of our own planet via satellite. If I were to be able to travel at the speed of light toward this planet, how would that affect what I can see? Would this speed up the movement I see on the surface, slow, or remain the same?

 

[chris]

Light travels at 670,616,629 miles per hour, so in one hour it has gone that distance. Say you're 100,000,000,000,000 miles away from an object you are looking at. If you do that calculation: 100,000,000,000,000 miles / 670,616,629 miles per hour = 149,116 hours. The light you see from that distance took 149,116 hours to reach you, so what you see is 149,116 hours in the past.

 

[william]

Well, you couldn’t really see anything but a great white wall in front of you with a rainbow effect leading into total black behind you at the speed of light.
But going to hypothetics, you would see the planet in a relative ‘fast forward’ appearance due to the frequency of Photon Reception.