NGC 1367 — Sa in Fornax
Sa in Fornax, 4.9 arcminutes across, its light 70 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 1367
What you are looking at
NGC 1367 is an early-type spiral: a large, bright central bulge wrapped in smooth, tightly wound arms. It is tilted about 52° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 100,000 light-years (taking its redshift distance, which for a galaxy this near is approximate), close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as an emission-line galaxy: its spectrum shows the glow of gas lit by young stars. One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 2005ke. It is cited in 214 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 19 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 70 million years. When it left, dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,463 km/s (3.3 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe. For a galaxy this close, its own motion through space is a large share of that speed, so the distance worked out from it is approximate; distances measured from individual stars in it can differ.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 1367 sits within the constellation Fornax. It is best placed on winter evenings: around 9:30 pm in December it stands about 25° 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: NGC 1385 (0.7° away on the sky, at least 860,000 light-years from it); NGC 1398 (1.7° away on the sky, at least 2,020,000 light-years from it); NGC 1412 (2.3° away on the sky, at least 2,800,000 light-years from it); NGC 1401 (2.4° away on the sky, at least 2,960,000 light-years from it), and 2 more.
By apparent size it is number 131 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 13255 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sa |
| Angular diameter | 4.89′ |
| Right ascension | 03h35m01.3s |
| Declination | -24°55′59.6″ |
| Constellation | Fornax |
| Inclination | 51.9° |
| Light travel time | 70 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 4.9 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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