This pair of interesting magnitude 12 objects is located in the constellation of Perseus at a declination of +45 degrees. The galaxies are not disturbed and appear to be too far apart from each other to be interacting.
NGC 1160, at top, is a spiral galaxy located 80 million light years away. It spans 1.5 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a diameter of 40,000 light years. The galaxy is on the small side to show much structure, although a slight yellow bar and faint spiral structure are visible.
NGC 1161, at bottom, is a lenticular galaxy located 90 million light years away. It spans 1.7 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a diameter of 50,000 light years. I love the dark dust band just inside of the inner ring. These dust bands seems to be unique to lenticular galaxies. I have a collection of lenticular galaxies with dust band inner rings
here.
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