Key facts
- Class
- VI
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Right ascension
- 06 48 59.4
- Declination
- −36 ° 00 ′ 19 ″
- Distance
- 34.9 kly (10.7 kpc)
- Absolute magnitude
- −5.85
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = −1.76 ± 0.14 dex
- Estimated age
- 13.2 ± 0.4 Gyr
- Other designations
- Melotte 53
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- catalog code
- Melotte 53
- Commons category
- NGC 2298
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-05-08
- absolute magnitude
- -6.25
- apparent magnitude
- 8.865
- right ascension
- 102.247542
- declination
- -36.005306
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 148.9
- metallicity
- -1.97
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 4.050
- declination component of proper motion
- -1.7200
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2298 is a globular cluster in the southern constellation of Puppis. Discovered by James Dunlop on May 30, 1826, it is probably a former member of the disputed Canis Major Dwarf galaxy.
The cluster is being disrupted by the galactic tide, trailing a long tidal tail.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1048036” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.