NGC 104 - 22.8.2019 at 21.00 Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia Observation number 86840

Visibility IV / V

Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat

Tucana 47, or NGC 104, is a well-known, bright, and spectacular spherical array in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The set is bright and compact and its brightness increases towards the core. The set seems strongly granular, meaning that the individual stars in the set are just on the verge of separation.

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Additional information

Observation target
- Deep space object
Designation
- NGC 104
- Näyttävä
Constellation
- Tucana
Field of view
51 arc minutes

Magnification
- 80
Weather
- Selkeää, heikko-kohtalainen, puuskainen tuuli, kuiva ilma, +9C, SQM: 21.31
Darkness
- Excellent
Seeing
- Excellent
Star clusters and asterisms
- Globular cluster
  
  Globular cluster is a ball-shaped group of thousand of stars. Typically it looks like a round fuzzy spot. With bigger instruments a part of the stars in the cluster can be seen as sepaterated.
  
  The globular cluster 47 Tucanae is located in Tucana. Image Arto Oksanen.
  
  The globular cluster M13 is in Hercules. Image Rauno Päivinen.
  
  The globular cluster M2 in Aquarius. Image Timo Inkinen.

Technical information

Visual observation, drawing on cardboard, telescope: L80 / 400 mm, eyepiece: Baader Hyperion 10 mm + 2x Barlow, scanned and slightly retouched with Paint Sho Pro

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NGC 104 - 22.8.2019 at 21.00 Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia Observation number 86840