RA 348.9223° · Dec -2.3786° · openngc
16 more points to reach Epic.
NGC 7554 is a rare galaxy. It sits in the constellation Psc and shines at apparent magnitude 15.89.
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.
Look for NGC 7554 in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 15.89, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, NGC 7554 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.
NGC 7554 scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Galaxy, Elliptical galaxy, On the zodiac, Ghostly low surface brightness and Faint fuzzy (mag > 13) — 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.