Globular cluster · Sculptor

NGC 288

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Type

Globular cluster

Constellation

Sculptor

Position (J2000)

0h 52m 47s · −26° 35′ 24″

Discovered

by William Herschel in 1785

Pictures

1

Magnitude

8.13

visual

Size

9.6′

Distance

~29,000 ly

Best months

Sep–Nov

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.