Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 43 31.5
- Declination
- −73 ° 26 ′ 26 ″
- Distance
- 195000 ly (60000 pc)
- Apparent dimensions v
- 0.95 ′ × 0.95 ′
- Mass
- 3.7 × 10 M ☉
- Estimated age
- 69 Myr
- Constellation
- Tucana
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC 0241 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- OGLE-CL SMC 17
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-08-12
- apparent magnitude
- 12.1
- right ascension
- 10.886417
- declination
- -73.440389
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 241
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 241 is an open cluster located in the constellation Tucana. It is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered on April 11, 1834, by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 241” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.