menu
A Complete Guide to the Solar System and the Night Sky
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
Timezone: Europe/London
Sunrise: 5:12 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:41
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
Search  close

Other deep sky objects in Tucana
All Constellations »  Tucana »  Deep Sky Objects » 

NGC 371 - Open Cluster in Tucana

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -38.54°   Az: 198.05°   Direction: South-South-West

NGC 371 is a Open Cluster in the Tucana constellation. NGC 371 is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere.

The image below is a photograph of NGC 371 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5000x0.5000 degrees (30.00x30.00 arcmins).

Image of NGC 371 - Open Cluster in Tucana star
/>
DSS2 image of NGC 371 in the Red band. The green region on the image is a representation of the major (4.2 arcmin) and minor (3.8 arcmin) axes of the object's apparent size.

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 04m 19s
-71° 55’ 16”
03h 25m 24s
04h 29m 43s

J2000

01h 03m 29s
-72° 03’ 24”

Finder Chart

The simplified sky charts below show the position of NGC 371 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for NGC 371 - Open Cluster in Tucana.

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for NGC 371 - Open Cluster in Tucana.

Apparent Size

The following table reports NGC 371 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of NGC 371 is a visual representation of it.
4.2 arcmin
3.8 arcmin
60°

Rise and Set Times

Location: Greenwich, UK
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

NGC 371 - Open Cluster in Tucana is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK