NGC 288
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Key facts
- Class
- X
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 52 45.24
- Declination
- –26 ° 34 ′ 57.4 ″
- Distance
- 29.22 ± 0.16 kly (8.96 ± 0.05 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 13′.8
- Mass
- 4.8 × 10 M ☉
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = –1.14 dex
- Estimated age
- 13.5 ± 1.1 Gyr
- Other designations
- Melotte 3
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 29000
- Image
- NGC 288 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 288
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0084
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-10-27
- absolute magnitude
- -6.75
- radial velocity
- -46.4
- apparent magnitude
- 8.139
- metallicity
- -1.25
- right ascension
- 13.188500
- declination
- -26.582611
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 4.675
- declination component of proper motion
- -5.6000
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 288 is a globular cluster in the constellation Sculptor. Its visual appearance was described by John Dreyer in 1888. It is located about 1.8° southeast of the galaxy NGC 253, 37′ north-northeast of the South Galactic Pole, 15′ south-southeast of a 9th magnitude star, and encompassed by a half-circular chain of stars that opens on its southwest side. It can be observed through binoculars. It is not very concentrated and has a well resolved, large 3′ dense core that is surrounded by a much more diffuse and irregular 9′ diameter ring. Peripheral members extend farther outward towards the south and especially southwest.
NGC 288 is located in our galaxy’s Galactic halo and exhibits both leading and trailing tails.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 288” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.