Left: g-band image from FDS (Iodice et al. 2016) shown in greyscale, illustrating the arrow-head shape of NGC 1427A, which points towards the south-west. In comparison, the cyan contours show part of the MeerKAT H I contours (from Serra et al. 2024, 21″ beam size, contours at 1, 10, 100, and 1000 Jy beam⁻¹ m s⁻¹), which demonstrate a H I tail pointing towards the south-east. The MUSE pointings are indicated with red squares. Right: false-colour image of NGC 1427A, reconstructed from MUSE data (R: I-band, G: R-band, and B: V-band images created from the MUSE cube). The scale bar refers to 10″, corresponding to 1 kpc at a distance of 20 Mpc. The MUSE image spans ~2′ × 2′ (12 × 12 kpc). North is up, and east is to the left.