The sky around NGC 7736 at true scale, north up and east left, with stars to magnitude 8 and the NGC and IC objects in the field. The circles show the field of a low-power eyepiece and of 10×50 binoculars.
NGC 7736 is a lenticular galaxy in Aquarius, 180 million light-years away
NGC 7736 (ESO 606-005) is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius, 180 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 12.8 and spans 1.7′ × 1.5′ of sky, about 86,900 light-years across. It is faint: a 10-inch or larger telescope, or a camera, 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 7736 from Fomalhaut
NGC 7736 lies 14.4° northeast of Fomalhaut, the magnitude 1.2 star. A fist held at arm's length covers about 10°.
NGC 7736 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 71°N, and never sets south of 71°S.
NGC 7736 is 180 million light-years away
The light seen from NGC 7736 tonight left it about 180 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023).
Objects within 6° of NGC 7736
17 NGC and IC objects lie within 6°. The nearest that are brighter than magnitude 12.5 or have their own page:
