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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 306 is referenced by 811 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), Tucana and epoch.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1836, NGC objects and Open clusters.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 54 14.2
- Declination
- −72 ° 14 ′ 32 ″
- Distance
- ~200000 ly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 1.1′ × 1.1′
- Mass
- 1.9 × 10 M ☉
- Estimated age
- 59 Myr
- Other designations
- ESO 029-SC 023.
- Constellation
- Tucana
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC 0306 DSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 13.559625
- declination
- -72.240917
- epoch
- J2000.0
- age estimated by a dating method
- 7.5
- angular diameter
- 0.9
- Commons category
- NGC 306
- catalog code
- ESO 29-23
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-10-04
- apparent magnitude
- 11.40
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 306 is an open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is located in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on October 4, 1836, by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 306” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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