NGC 231
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Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 41 06.4
- Declination
- −73 ° 21 ′ 09 ″
- Distance
- ~210000
- Apparent dimensions v
- 1.8 ′ × 1.8 ′
- Mass
- 6.9 × 10 M ☉
- Estimated age
- 87 Myr
- Other designations
- ESO 029-SC 005.
- Constellation
- Tucana
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC 0231 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- OGLE-CL SMC 11
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-08-12
- apparent magnitude
- 12.62
- right ascension
- 10.280167
- declination
- -73.349556
- epoch
- J2000.0
- angular diameter
- 1.26
- absolute magnitude
- 17.4
- age estimated by a dating method
- 85
- Commons category
- NGC 231
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 231 is an open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is located in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on August 1, 1826 by James Dunlop.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 231” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.