The sky around NGC 925 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 925 is a spiral galaxy (Scd) in Triangulum, 30 million light-years away
NGC 925 (PGC 9332, UGC 1913) is a spiral galaxy (Scd) in the constellation Triangulum, 30 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 10.1 and spans 11′ × 5.8′ of sky, about 92,400 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 NGC 925 from Alaybasan
NGC 925 lies 3.9° east of Alaybasan, the magnitude 3.0 star. Three fingers held at arm's length cover about 5°.
NGC 925 is highest in the evening in December
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 northern hemisphere and south to about 56°S, and never sets north of 56°N.
NGC 925 is 30 million light-years away
The light seen from NGC 925 tonight left it about 30 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. It ranks 69 of 422 by distance among the galaxies on Go Astronomy. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023).
Objects within 6° of NGC 925
No other Messier, Caldwell or Herschel 400 object lies within 6°.
