Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 54 14.2
- Declination
- −72 ° 14 ′ 32 ″
- Distance
- ~200000 ly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 1.1′ × 1.1′
- Mass
- 1.9 × 10 M ☉
- Estimated age
- 59 Myr
- Other designations
- ESO 029-SC 023.
- Constellation
- Tucana
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC 0306 DSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 13.559625
- declination
- -72.240917
- epoch
- J2000.0
- age estimated by a dating method
- 7.5
- angular diameter
- 0.9
- Commons category
- NGC 306
- catalog code
- ESO 29-23
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-10-04
- apparent magnitude
- 11.40
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 306 is an open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is located in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on October 4, 1836, by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 306” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.