The sky around NGC 134 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 134 is a spiral galaxy (SABb) in Sculptor, 61 million light-years away
NGC 134 (ESO 350-023, PGC 1851) is a spiral galaxy (SABb) in the constellation Sculptor, 61 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 10.3 and spans 8.4′ × 1.8′ of sky, about 148,600 light-years across. It is a telescope object, 6 inches or larger, and it is highest in the evening sky in November.
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 NGC 134 from Ankaa
NGC 134 lies 9.1° north of Ankaa, the magnitude 2.4 star. A fist held at arm's length covers about 10°.
NGC 134 is highest in the evening in November
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 57°N, and never sets south of 57°S.
NGC 134 is 61 million light-years away
The light seen from NGC 134 tonight left it about 61 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. It ranks 128 of 422 by distance among the galaxies on Go Astronomy. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023), Tully-Fisher.
Objects within 6° of NGC 134
No other Messier, Caldwell or Herschel 400 object lies within 6°.
