Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Tucana (Tuc)  ·  Contains:  IC 1611  ·  IC 1612  ·  NGC 330  ·  NGC 346  ·  NGC 371
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NGC 346, Miles Zhou
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NGC 346

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NGC 346

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NGC 346 is a 10th magnitude Bright Nebula appearing in the constellation Tucana. It is 282 thousand light years from our solar system. NGC 346 appears roughly 14.0 x 11.0 arcminutes in size, corresponding to a physical diameter of 1149 light years.

The narrow band image reveals a lot of information that is not present in RGB data. The star color in this image is obtained by RGB, though.

In the image, two visually very close open clusters are also presented: NGC 371 and 330.

Thanks to my teammates who found this interesting target.

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NGC 346, Miles Zhou

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