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NGC 4372

Globular cluster in the constellation Musca

Field	Value
name	NGC 4372
image	NGC 4372 2MASS.jpg
caption	NGC 4372 imaged by 2MASS
class	XII
epoch	J2000
ra
dec
dist_ly	18.9 kly
size_v	18'
appmag_v	9.85
absmag_v	−8.52
constellation	Musca
mass_msol
name	apj742_1_51/
radius_ly	49.5 ly
metal_fe	–2.33
age	12.54 Gyr
names	Caldwell 108

name=apj742_1_51/

NGC 4372 (also known as Caldwell 108) is a globular cluster in the southern constellation of Musca. It is southwest of γ Muscae (Gamma Muscae) and west of the southern end of the Dark Doodad Nebula (Sandqvist 149), a 3° thin streak of black across a southern section of the great plane of the Milky Way.

NGC 4372 "is partially obscured by dust lanes, but still appears as a large object some 10 arcseconds in diameter," according to Astronomy of the Milky Way (2004).

The cluster has highly peculiar chemistry similar to NGC 5694, being extremely iron-poor yet having super-solar abundances of magnesium and titanium.

References

(2019). "Non-LTE chemical abundances in Galactic open and globular clusters". Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Inglis, Mike. (2004). "Astronomy of the Milky Way: Observer's Guide to the Southern Sky". Springer.
"NGC 4372".
(August 1927). "A Classification of Globular Clusters". Harvard College Observatory Bulletin.
(May 2010). "Accreted versus in situ Milky Way globular clusters". [[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]].
(November 2011). "Young Radio Pulsars in Galactic Globular Clusters". The Astrophysical Journal.

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