The sky around NGC 7332 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 7332 is a lenticular galaxy in Pegasus, 70 million light-years away
NGC 7332 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus, 70 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 11.0 and spans 3′ × 43″ of sky, about 59,900 light-years across. It is a telescope object, 6 inches or larger, and it is highest in the evening sky in October.
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 7332 from Sadalbari
NGC 7332 lies 3.0° west of Sadalbari, the magnitude 3.5 star. Three fingers held at arm's length cover about 5°.
NGC 7332 is highest in the evening in October
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 66°S, and never sets north of 66°N.
NGC 7332 is 70 million light-years away
The light seen from NGC 7332 tonight left it about 70 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023).
Objects within 6° of NGC 7332
24 NGC and IC objects lie within 6°. The nearest that are brighter than magnitude 12.5 or have their own page:
