U 440
23:24 to 00:36
-61° to -72°
Ind, Tuc
Aug-Jan

A TINY SLIVER OF THE SMC cuts the bottom corner of this map, accompanied by 47 Tucanae.
The recognizable curve of naked-eye stars Beta-Zeta-Epsilon Tucanae add lustre to an otherwise dull portion of sky.

FEATURED OBJECTS: NGC 121, NGC 7734.

NGC 121
ESO050-SC012
RA 00:26:47
Dec -71°32.0'
Globular cluster

h: pB, lE, vgbM, 40"

Kron ("Star Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud", PASP, Vol. 68, 1956) describes it as a red cluster (Kron 2), noting the absence of nebulosity and the absence of bright blue stars. He classifies it as a globular cluster.

Van den Bergh and Hagen ("UBV photometry of star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds", Astronomical Journal, Vol. 73, 1968) find that the integrated V magnitude through a 60'' diaphragm is 11.3. They note that it is an old cluster with a B-V = 1.9.

Lindsay ("Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud", Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol. 4, 1956) classifies it as a globular cluster. He writes: "(Lindsay 10) NGC 121 was of course accepted as globular after the discovery of cluster-type variables in it by Thackeray and Wesselink."

6-inch f/8.6 Newtonian: A most unimpressive globular cluster, in the same field as NGC 104. At first difficult but later easily seen as an out of focus small star. (suburban skies) [AS]

NGC 7734
ESO110-G023, ESO078-G002
RA 23:42:42
Dec -65°56.7'
Galaxy

h: "eF, S, R, 25 arcseconds, the following and largest of two." The second object is NGC 7733.

The RNGC (Sulentic and Tifft 1973) notes that this is a unverified southern object.

See Cat.of South.Peculiar Gal.and Ass. Vol 2 (Arp & Madore, 1987) p2.12.