Horologium Hor
Horologium is one of the 88 constellations, covering 250 square degrees of the sky (58th largest). It is highest at midnight in November and best in the evening sky in December and January.
1 of its best-known object has a page of their own here.
Facts
| Abbreviation | Hor |
|---|---|
| Size | 250 square degrees (58th largest of the 88; the full Moon covers about 0.2) |
| Middle (J2000) | 3h 18m, −53° |
| Highest at midnight | November (in the evening, around 8–10 pm: December and January) |
| How high | From India (about 20° N) its middle climbs to about 17° above the horizon; from 50° N it never rises. |
| Pages here | 1 object |
Planetary systems
1Brightest NGC and IC objects
OpenNGC| Object | Type | Magnitude | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGC 1261 (on the map) | Globular star cluster | 8.6 | 5.1′ |
| NGC 1433 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10 | 6.2′ |
| NGC 1512 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.4 | 8.4′ |
| NGC 1527 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.8 | 4.6′ |
| NGC 1448 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.9 | 8′ |
| NGC 1411 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.2 | 2.5′ |
| NGC 1493 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.4 | 3.4′ |
| IC 1954 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.6 | 3′ |
| IC 2035 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.8 | 1.4′ |
| NGC 1249 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.8 | 3.6′ |
| NGC 1494 (on the map) | Galaxy | 12 | 3.5′ |
| IC 2000 (on the map) | Galaxy | 12.4 | 4.9′ |
Smaller magnitudes are brighter; the faintest stars the eye sees are about 6. The full Moon is about 31′ across.
Data: IAU constellation boundaries (Roman 1987) · OpenNGC (Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data sources & credits