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Common galaxy 19 EP

NGC 1367

RA 53.7556° · Dec -24.9332° · openngc

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
19 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Galaxy +14
  • Spiral galaxy +5
Total score 19

3 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Galaxy · +14
  • Spiral galaxy · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it actually is. A galaxy: a gravitationally bound city of stars, gas and dark matter, turning so slowly that a single rotation takes hundreds of millions of years.
  • Spiral. A spiral galaxy. Those arms are not solid structures but traffic jams — density waves that stars drift into and out of as they orbit.

Sense of scale

  • Scale. Home to hundreds of billions of stars — a universe unto itself, and every one of those points of light could have planets.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Fornax.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — that's when to go looking.

Its true colour

  • Its true colour. Its colour is a census: blue where gas is still collapsing into hot young stars, yellow-red in the old, settled core.

How we came to know it

  • The New General Catalogue. Its NGC number comes from J. L. E. Dreyer's 1888 catalogue, itself built on decades of sky sweeps by William Herschel and his sister Caroline.

Properties

constellation
For
dso type
G
hubble
Sa
mag
10.66
name
NGC 1367
size arcmin
4.88
surface brightness
23.57

Nearby objects

About NGC 1367

NGC 1367 is a common galaxy. It sits in the constellation For and shines at apparent magnitude 10.66.

A galaxy: a gravitationally bound city of stars, gas and dark matter, turning so slowly that a single rotation takes hundreds of millions of years.

How to see it

Look for NGC 1367 in the constellation For. At apparent magnitude 10.66, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, NGC 1367 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why NGC 1367 is a common galaxy

NGC 1367 scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Galaxy and Spiral galaxy — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.