NGC 362 75 Tucanae

Capture

Seestar s50 68 stacks

Date

31 August 2024

Location

Camden, NSW

Original

979 × 1932 px

NGC 362 75 Tucanae is a globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana in the Southern Hemisphere, slightly north of the Small Magellanic Cloud, to which it is completely unrelated. The Milky Way contains over 150 such clusters . It is located 30,000 light-years away, The stars have a notably high concentration of metals, indicating they formed more recently than those in most other globular clusters, with an age lying between 10 and 11 billion years old. Apparent magnitude 6.4

See it in the star clusters gallery