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      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.

      Hope ya like it!

      Tom

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      47 Tucanae

      5 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Globular Cluster
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI ProLine PL9000
      • Target coordinates
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        RA 6.0223 Dec -72.0814
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        08 Sept 2019 - 23 Dec 2022
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Blue861h10m49
      Luminance5545m49
      Red7259m49
      Green841h9m49
      Halpha1210m49

      47 Tucanae (NGC 104)