RA 0.4923° · Dec -15.4609° · openngc
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Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte is a rare galaxy. It sits in the constellation Cet and shines at apparent magnitude 10.76.
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 Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte in the constellation Cet. At apparent magnitude 10.76, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte 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.
Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte scores 49 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Galaxy, Has a proper name, Irregular galaxy (no shape at all), Big on the sky and Coming towards us — 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.