NGC 1886 — Sbc in Lepus
Sbc in Lepus, 3.2 arcminutes across, its light 84 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 1886
What you are looking at
NGC 1886 is a spiral of the same broad class astronomers give the Milky Way: a moderate bulge and clearly drawn 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 79,000 light-years, about 80% of the Milky Way’s width.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a Seyfert galaxy: its nucleus is lit by gas falling into its central black hole, though dust hides part of that glow from us. It is cited in 83 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 14 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
What a telescope records of NGC 1886 is light that left it about 84 million years ago; on Earth, dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,754 km/s (3.9 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 1886 lies in Lepus. It is best placed on winter evenings: around 9:30 pm in January it stands about 26° 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: IC 2130 (2.4° away on the sky, at least 3,510,000 light-years from it); NGC 1979 (2.8° away on the sky, at least 4,170,000 light-years from it); IC 2137 (2.9° away on the sky, at least 4,230,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 438 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 17174 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Angular diameter | 3.22′ |
| Right ascension | 05h21m48.2s |
| Declination | -23°48′36.4″ |
| Constellation | Lepus |
| Inclination | 90.0° |
| Light travel time | 84 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 3.2 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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