The sky around IC 1328, 3° across, north up low-power eyepiece, 1° NE 1°
The sky around IC 1328 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.

IC 1328 · ESO 597-028

IC 1328

Late spiral galaxy in Capricornus

Late spiral galaxy in Capricornus, 488 million light-years away.

CAPRICORNUS

The box shows where IC 1328 sits in Capricornus.

Constellation
CapricornusCap
Magnitude
14.0visual
Size
53″ × 18″about 126,200 light-years
Distance
488 million lylight-years
Best month
Septemberat 9 pm
Best with
Large telescope

IC 1328 is a late spiral galaxy in Capricornus, 488 million light-years away

IC 1328 (ESO 597-028) is a late spiral galaxy in the constellation Capricornus, 488 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 14.0 and spans 53″ × 18″ of sky, about 126,200 light-years across. It is faint: a 10-inch or larger telescope, or a camera, and it is highest in the evening sky in September.

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 IC 1328 from Dabih

Dabih IC 1328 CAPRICORNUS

IC 1328 lies 7.0° southeast of Dabih, the magnitude 3.1 star. Three fingers held at arm's length cover about 5°.

IC 1328 is highest in the evening in September

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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 70°N, and never sets south of 70°S.

IC 1328 is 488 million light-years away

The light seen from IC 1328 tonight left it about 488 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023).

Objects within 6° of IC 1328

16 NGC and IC objects lie within 6°. The nearest that are brighter than magnitude 12.5 or have their own page:

IC 1328 catalog data

FieldValue
ConstellationCapricornus
DesignationsIC 1328, ESO 597-028, 2MASX J20415704-1937587, IRAS 20390-1948, MCG -03-52-023, PGC 065217
Typelate spiral galaxy (Sc)
Right ascension (J2000)20h 42.0m
Declination (J2000)-19° 38′
Magnitude14.0
Apparent size53″ × 18″
Position angle50°
True size126,200 light-years
Distance488 million light-years (Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023))
Radial velocity10,756 km/s, redshift 0.03654
Best withLarge telescope
Best monthSeptember
Catalog pageIC 1001 to 1500