The sky around Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, 3° across, north up low-power eyepiece, 1° NE 1°
The sky around Great Barred Spiral Galaxy at true scale, north up and east left, with stars to magnitude 8. The circles show the field of a low-power eyepiece and of 10×50 binoculars.

NGC 1365 · PGC 13179 · ESO 358-017

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy

Grand design spiral galaxy (Sb) in Fornax

A huge barred spiral of the Fornax Cluster, its bar plain in a 6-inch telescope.

FORNAX

The box shows where Great Barred Spiral Galaxy sits in Fornax.

Constellation
FornaxFor
Magnitude
10.1visual
Size
12′ × 6.1′about 222,700 light-years
Distance
64 million lylight-years
Best month
Decemberat 9 pm
Best with
Telescope

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy is a grand design spiral galaxy (Sb) in Fornax, 64 million light-years away

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1365, PGC 13179, ESO 358-017, VV 825) is a grand design spiral galaxy (Sb) in the constellation Fornax, 64 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 10.1 and spans 12′ × 6.1′ of sky, about 222,700 light-years across. It is a telescope object, 6 inches or larger, and it is highest in the evening sky in December.

Galaxy: a system of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity, far outside the Milky Way. Spiral galaxies have a disk with arms; elliptical galaxies are smooth, round or oval swarms of older stars.

Finding Great Barred Spiral Galaxy from Acamar

Acamar Great Barred Spiral Galaxy FORNAX

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy lies 8.1° northeast of Acamar, the magnitude 2.9 star. A fist held at arm's length covers about 10°.

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy is highest in the evening in December

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The chart gives its height above the horizon at 9 pm through the year, from 60°N to 40°S. It can be seen from the whole southern hemisphere and north to about 54°N, and never sets south of 54°S.

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy is 64 million light-years away

The light seen from Great Barred Spiral Galaxy tonight left it about 64 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. It ranks 143 of 422 by distance among the galaxies on Go Astronomy. Distance source: redshift-independent (PHANGS adopted), Leroy et al. 2021.

Objects within 6° of Great Barred Spiral Galaxy

No other Messier, Caldwell or Herschel 400 object lies within 6°.

Great Barred Spiral Galaxy catalog data

FieldValue
DesignationsNGC 1365, PGC 13179, ESO 358-017, VV 825
Typegrand design spiral galaxy (Sb)
ConstellationFornax
Right ascension (J2000)03h 33.6m
Declination (J2000)-36° 08′
Magnitude10.1
Surface brightness15.1 mag/arcmin²
Apparent size12′ × 6.1′
True size222,700 light-years
Distance64 million light-years (redshift-independent (PHANGS adopted), Leroy et al. 2021)
Best monthDecember
Best withTelescope