Key facts
- Right ascension
- 01 09 24.50
- Declination
- −71 ° 45 ′ 59.0 ″
- Apparent dimensions v
- 1.0 ′ × 1.0 ′
- Other designations
- Kron 62, Lindsay 87, ESO 51-22, RZ2005 178.
- Constellation
- Tucana
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC422-hst-R814GB555.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 422
- catalog code
- ESO 51-22
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-09-21
- apparent magnitude
- 12.83
- right ascension
- 17.352083
- declination
- -71.766389
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 422 is an open cluster located in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on September 21, 1835, by John Herschel. It was described by John Louis Emil Dreyer as "very faint (in Nubecular Minor)", with Nubecular Minor being the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was also described by DeLisle Stewart as "only 3 extremely faint stars, close together, not a nebula."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 422” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.