NGC 362

{{short description|Globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana}}

{{Infobox globular cluster

| name = NGC 362

| image = 280px

| caption= False-color image of NGC 362 by GALEX;

| credit =

| constellation = Tucana

| ra = {{RA|01|03|14.26}}

| dec = {{DEC|-70|50|55.6}}

| class = III

| dist_ly = {{cvt|8.98|±|0.06|kpc|kly|order=flip|lk=on}}

| appmag_v = 6.4

| size_v = 12.9′

| radius_ly =

| v_hb =

| metal_fe = –1.09

| age = 11.0 ± 0.6 Gyr

| names = Melotte 4

}}

NGC 362 (also known as Caldwell 104) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana in the Southern Hemisphere, slightly north of the Small Magellanic Cloud, to which it is completely unrelated. It was discovered on August 1, 1826, by James Dunlop.{{cite web|title=NGC 362|url=http://spider.seds.org/spider/MWGC/n0362.html|website=SEDS|access-date=28 June 2015}} It is visible to the naked eye in dark skies, and is an impressive sight in a telescope, although it is somewhat overshadowed by its larger and brighter neighbour 47 Tucanae.{{cite book|last1=O'Meara|first1=Stephen James|title=Deep Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521827966|pages=409–412}}

File:NGC 362 - Potw1643a.tif]]

The stars of NGC 362 have an average metallicity higher than the stars in most globulars. This implies that NGC 362 is a relatively young globular cluster. It also has an overabundance of binary stars, and an exceptionally tight core 13 light-years in diameter. The orbit of NGC 362 is highly eccentric, taking it to within 3,260 light-years of the Galactic Center.

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{{citation | display-authors=1 | last1=Goldsbury | first1=Ryan | last2=Richer | first2=Harvey B. | last3=Anderson | first3=Jay | last4=Dotter | first4=Aaron | last5=Sarajedini | first5=Ata | last6=Woodley | first6=Kristin | title=The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. X. New Determinations of Centers for 65 Clusters | journal=The Astronomical Journal | volume=140 | issue=6 | pages=1830–1837 |date=December 2010 | doi=10.1088/0004-6256/140/6/1830 | bibcode=2010AJ....140.1830G | postscript=. |arxiv = 1008.2755 | s2cid=119183070 }}

{{citation | last1=Shapley | first1=Harlow | last2=Sawyer | first2=Helen B. | title=A Classification of Globular Clusters | journal=Harvard College Observatory Bulletin | volume=849 | issue=849 | pages=11–14 |date=August 1927 | bibcode=1927BHarO.849...11S | postscript=. }}

{{citation | last1=Forbes | first1=Duncan A. | last2=Bridges | first2=Terry | title=Accreted versus in situ Milky Way globular clusters | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume=404 | issue=3 | pages=1203–1214 |date=May 2010 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16373.x | doi-access=free | bibcode=2010MNRAS.404.1203F | postscript=. |arxiv = 1001.4289 | s2cid=51825384 }}

{{cite journal | doi=10.1093/mnras/stab2756 | title=Isochrone fitting of Galactic globular clusters – III. NGC 288, NGC 362, and NGC 6218 (M12) | year=2021 | last1=Gontcharov | first1=George A. | last2=Khovritchev | first2=Maxim Yu | last3=Mosenkov | first3=Aleksandr V. | last4=Il'In | first4=Vladimir B. | last5=Marchuk | first5=Alexander A. | last6=Savchenko | first6=Sergey S. | last7=Smirnov | first7=Anton A. | last8=Usachev | first8=Pavel A. | last9=Poliakov | first9=Denis M. | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume=508 | issue=2 | pages=2688–2705| doi-access=free | arxiv=2109.13115 }}

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{{cite simbad|title=NGC 362}}
{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galexf-20070620.html|title=Galaxy Evolution Explorer Spies Band of Stars|date=20 June 2007|author=Vu, Linda|publisher=NASA|access-date=28 June 2015|archive-date=7 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407195303/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galexf-20070620.html|url-status=dead}}

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Category:Globular clusters

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Category:Tucana

Category:Discoveries by James Dunlop

NGC 362

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