RA 194.1818° · Dec 21.6830° · openngc
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23 more points to reach Anomaly.
Black Eye Galaxy is an epic galaxy. It lies about 18,731,683.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Com and shines at apparent magnitude 8.52.
A barred spiral — a straight bar of stars driving right through the nucleus, feeding gas inwards. Our own Milky Way is one of these.
Look for Black Eye Galaxy in the constellation Com. At apparent magnitude 8.52, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, Black Eye Galaxy 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.
Black Eye Galaxy scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 23 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Galaxy, Outside our galaxy entirely, Messier object, Has a proper name, Barred spiral galaxy and Big on the sky — 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.