NGC 362 is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Objects: NGC362

Across much of the world, the globular cluster NGC 362 (mag 6.6) in Tucana will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 7 October it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Cambridge , however, it is not observable because it lies so far south that it never rises above the horizon.

At a declination of 70°50'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 0°S.

At magnitude 6.6, NGC362 is quite faint, and certainly not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of NGC362 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
NGC362 01h03m10s 70°50'S Tucana 6.6 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 8 Oct 2018

The sky on 8 October 2018
Sunrise
06:46
Sunset
18:14
Twilight ends
19:47
Twilight begins
05:13


Waning Crescent

0%

29 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:54 13:17 18:40
Venus 09:19 13:57 18:34
Moon 05:58 12:14 18:20
Mars 15:43 20:23 01:03
Jupiter 10:04 14:59 19:54
Saturn 13:14 17:48 22:21
All times shown in EDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

Image credit

© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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