NGC 1032 — S0-a in Cetus
S0-a in Cetus, 3.6 arcminutes across, its light 131 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 1032
What you are looking at
NGC 1032 is a lenticular galaxy: a disc galaxy that has largely used up the gas it needs to form new stars, so its disc is smooth and has no spiral arms. We see it almost exactly edge-on, so its whole disc appears as one thin band of light, with dust showing as a dark line along its length. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 135,000 light-years, about 1.4 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
It is cited in 102 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 20 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 131 million years. When it left, the first birds had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,727 km/s (6.1 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 1032 lies in Cetus. It is best placed on winter evenings: around 9:30 pm in December it stands about 51° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: UGC 2081 (1.1° away on the sky, at least 2,450,000 light-years from it); NGC 1090 (2.2° away on the sky, at least 5,080,000 light-years from it); NGC 1015 (2.4° away on the sky, at least 5,520,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 324 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 10060 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | S0-a |
| Angular diameter | 3.58′ |
| Right ascension | 02h39m23.6s |
| Declination | +01°05′37.8″ |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Inclination | 90.0° |
| Light travel time | 131 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 3.6 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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