Key facts
- Class
- XII
- Constellation
- Musca
- Right ascension
- 12 25 45.43
- Declination
- −72 ° 39 ′ 32.7 ″
- Distance
- 18.9 kly (5.8 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 18'
- Absolute magnitude
- −8.52
- Mass
- 3.29 × 10 M ☉
- Radius
- 49.5 ly
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = –2.33 ± 0.08 dex
- Estimated age
- 12.54 Gyr
- Other designations
- Caldwell 108
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2029
- Commons category
- NGC 4372
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-04-30
- apparent magnitude
- 5.796
- right ascension
- 186.439292
- declination
- -72.659083
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 72.6
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -6.490
- declination component of proper motion
- 3.7100
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4372 (also known as Caldwell 108) is a globular cluster in the southern constellation of Musca. It is southwest of γ Muscae (Gamma Muscae) and west of the southern end of the Dark Doodad Nebula (Sandqvist 149), a 3° thin streak of black across a southern section of the great plane of the Milky Way.
NGC 4372 "is partially obscured by dust lanes, but still appears as a large object some 10 arcseconds in diameter," according to Astronomy of the Milky Way (2004).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q899854” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.