Globular cluster · Dorado

NGC 1978

Also known as ESO 085-090

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Type

Globular cluster

Constellation

Dorado

Position (J2000)

5h 28m 45s · −66° 14′ 09″

Discovered

by James Dunlop in 1826

Pictures

1

Magnitude

10.7

visual

Size

4′ × 2.7′

Distance

~160,000 ly

Best months

Nov–Jan

Low from the north

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