47 Tucanae (NGC 104)
    Wallpaper author:
    Thomas Peter

    17 Jan 2026

    47 Tucanae (NGC 104)

    47 Tucanae is located in the Southern constellation Tucana (The Toucan), close to the Small Magellanic Cloud. It's an impressive globular cluster that is visible to the unaided eye. It lies at a distance of about 16,000 light-years from Earth, has a total mass of about 1,000,000 Solar masses, and is 120 light-years across. 47 Tucanae is so dense that the stars are less than a tenth of a light-year apart, about the size of our Solar system and is only surpassed, in globular clusters, by Omega Centauri.

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    Tom

    Dataset from which the image was processed

    47 Tucanae

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    • Type of target
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      Globular Cluster
    • Camera
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      FLI ProLine PL9000
    • Target coordinates
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      RA 6.0223 Dec -72.0814
    • Hemisphere
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      Southern
    • Telescope location
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      Chile
    • Transient event
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      No
    • Observed on
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      08 Sept 2019 - 23 Dec 2022
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    Blue861h10m49
    Luminance5545m49
    Red7259m49
    Green841h9m49
    Halpha1210m49

    47 Tucanae (NGC 104)