NGC 1232 [SEP] constellation
NGC 1232
NGC 1232 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 20 October 1784.
It is dominated by millions of bright stars and dark dust, in spiral arms rotating about the center. Open clusters containing bright blue stars are sprinkled along these spiral arms, with dark lanes of dense interstellar dust between. Less visible are dim normal stars and interstellar gas, producing such high mass that they dominate the dynamics of
Zeta Fornacis
ζ Fornacis (often Latinised as Zeta Fornacis) is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Fornax. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.67. Based upon a measured annual parallax shift of 30.66 mas, it is about 106 light years from the Sun. Positioned about 1.3° to the southeast of Zeta Fornacis is the galaxy NGC 1232.
This is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F4 V. With