NGC 371

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title: "NGC 371" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["open-clusters", "ngc-objects", "small-magellanic-cloud", "astronomical-objects-discovered-in-1826", "tucana", "discoveries-by-james-dunlop"] description: "Open cluster in the constellation Tucana" topic_path: "general/open-clusters" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_371" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Open cluster in the constellation Tucana ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox galaxy"]

Field	Value
name	NGC 371
image	NGC 371.jpg
caption	NGC 371 image using the FORS1 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope
epoch	J2000
constellation name	Tucana
ra	{{cite simbad
title	NGC 371
access-date	2010-03-31}}
dec
dist_ly	200000 ly (61320 pc)
names	Cl Kron 48, ESO 51-14, Cl Lindsay 71, Cl Melotte 5
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| name = NGC 371 | image = NGC 371.jpg | caption = NGC 371 image using the FORS1 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope | epoch = J2000 | constellation name = Tucana | ra = {{cite simbad | title=NGC 371 | access-date=2010-03-31}} | dec = | z = | h_radial_v = | dist_ly = 200000 ly (61320 pc) | type = | appmag_v = | size_v = | notes = | names = Cl Kron 48, ESO 51-14, Cl Lindsay 71, Cl Melotte 5 NGC 371, also called Hodge 53, is an open cluster 200,000 light-years (61,320 pc) away located in the Small Magellanic Cloud in Tucana constellation. It was discovered on 1 August 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. ::data[format=table title="Prominent stars{{Cite journal|last1=Massey|first1=Philip|last2=Waterhouse|first2=Elizabeth|last3=DeGioia-Eastwood|first3=Kathleen|author3-link=Kathy Eastwood|date=May 2000|title=The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turnoffs. I. Results from 19 OB Associations in the Magellanic Clouds|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/301345|journal=The Astronomical Journal|volume=119|issue=5|pages=2214–2241|arxiv=astro-ph/0002233|bibcode=2000AJ....119.2214M|doi=10.1086/301345|issn=0004-6256|s2cid=16891188}}{{cite journal|bibcode=2016A&A...591A..22S|title=Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: II. Analysis of the binaries|volume=1604|arxiv=1604.01022|last1=Shenar|first1=T.|last2=Hainich|first2=R.|last3=Todt|first3=H.|last4=Sander|first4=A.|last5=Hamann|first5=W.-R.|last6=Moffat|first6=A. F. J.|last7=Eldridge|first7=J. J.|last8=Pablo|first8=H.|last9=Oskinova|first9=L. M.|last10=Richardson|first10=N. D.|year=2016|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201527916|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|page=A22|s2cid=119255408 }}"]

Star name	Effective temperature (K)	Absolute magnitude	Bolometric magnitude	Mass ()	Spectral type
AB6	105000/35000	-5.15/-6.65	-10.96/-10.01	9/41	WN4+O6.5I
AB7	105000/36000	-4.4/-5.7	-10.51/-9.01	23/44	WN4+O6I(f)
Hodge53-207	50100	-4.8	-9.3	53	O
Hodge53-47a	48600	-4.9	-9.3	50	O4V
Hodge53-47b	42400	-4.9	-8.9	37	O6.5V
Hodge53-60	37200	-5.4	-9	36	O8III
AV 327	33000	-5.8	-9.1	35	O9I
Hodge53-141	34400	-5.8	-9.2	34	O9III
Hodge53-137	35700	-5.6	-9.1	34	O8.5III
Hodge53-118	42500	-4.6	-8.6	34
Hodge53-91	37200	-5.1	-8.7	32	O8.5V
Hodge53-11	41800	-4.4	-8.3	31
Hodge53-74	39400	-4.6	-8.4	30
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References

References

1. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue Objects: NGC{{nbsp}}371".
2. (May 2000). "The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turnoffs. I. Results from 19 OB Associations in the Magellanic Clouds". The Astronomical Journal.
3. (2016). "Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: II. Analysis of the binaries". Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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