47 Tucanae
The second brightest globular cluster in the sky, just beside the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Globular star cluster
- Distance
- 14,500 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 4.09, visible to the eye from a dark site, easy in binoculars
- Size in the sky
- About as wide as the full Moon
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Catalogue
- NGC 104
Figures from OpenNGC, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikipedia, “47 Tucanae”, CC BY-SA 4.0: 4.45 kpc (Chen et al. 2018); V from Dalessandro et al. 2012. All sources
Near it in the sky
- Small Magellanic CloudA galaxy in Tucana, about three fingers away.
- AchernarA blue-white main-sequence star in Eridanus, about a hand span away.
- Large Magellanic CloudA galaxy in Dorado, about a hand span away.
- CanopusA yellow-white supergiant in Carina, about two hand spans away.
- Southern PleiadesAn open cluster in Carina, about two hand spans away.