Galaxy
NGC 1407 (NGC1407)
In Eridanus (Eri) • Magnitude 9.7 • 5.7 arcminutes
Open the free AstroPlanner with NGC 1407 pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
Elliptical galaxy in Eridanus.
NGC 1407 at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 1407 |
| Type | Galaxy |
| Constellation | Eridanus (Eri) |
| Right ascension | 03h 40m 12s |
| Declination | -18° 34' 48" |
| Apparent magnitude | 9.70 |
| Surface brightness | 23.4 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 5.7 × 5.3 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 26° |
| Best imaging months | Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan |
How to image NGC 1407
NGC 1407 sits in the constellation Eridanus at right ascension 03h 40m 12s and declination -18° 34' 48". To frame and integrate it well, AstroPlanner will compute the optimal moonless window for tonight from your location, the field-of-view fit against your sensor and focal length, the suggested total integration time given your aperture and sky Bortle class, and a cloud-aware schedule that drops it from the plan if your nearest cloud forecast spike overlaps the best altitude window. As a galaxy, NGC 1407 needs the darkest skies you can find: surface brightness, not just apparent magnitude, drives whether it will lift out of the gradient.