Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 35 57.9
- Declination
- −73 ° 09 ′ 59 ″
- Mass
- 3.5 × 10 M ☉
- Estimated age
- 130 Myr
- Other designations
- ESO 029-SC 002.
- Constellation
- Tucana
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC176-HST-R555GB450.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 176
- catalog code
- ESO 29-2
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-08-12
- apparent magnitude
- 13.09
- right ascension
- 8.994500
- declination
- -73.165694
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 176 is an open cluster in the constellation Tucana. It is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered on August 12, 1834, by John Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035670” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.