SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
massimo.difusco
Location of Photo:
Rio Hurtado (Chile)
Date/Time of photo:
19/05/2025 03:00
Equipment:
Data acquired at Chilescope: ASA Newton 500 @1900mm, ADA DDM85 equatorial mount, FLI PL16803 CCD camera, Astrodon R/G/B filters
Description:
NGC 4372 (also known as Caldwell 108) is a globular cluster in the southern constellation of Musca about 20000 light years away. This is an elusive object, whose overall magnitude is 7.8, and 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. The cluster has highly peculiar chemistry similar to NGC 5694, being extremely iron-poor yet having super-solar abundances of magnesium and titanium.
