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.
Prominent stars[ 2] [ 3]
Star bame
Effective temperature (K )
Absolute magnitude
Bolometric magnitude
Mass (M ☉ )
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
^ "NGC 371" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2010-03-31 .
^ Massey, Philip; Waterhouse, Elizabeth; DeGioia-Eastwood, Kathleen (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 . 119 (5): 2214–2241. arXiv :astro-ph/0002233 . Bibcode :2000AJ....119.2214M . doi :10.1086/301345 . ISSN 0004-6256 . S2CID 16891188 .
^ Shenar, T.; Hainich, R.; Todt, H.; Sander, A.; Hamann, W.-R.; Moffat, A. F. J.; Eldridge, J. J.; Pablo, H.; Oskinova, L. M.; Richardson, N. D. (2016). "Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: II. Analysis of the binaries". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 1604 : A22. arXiv :1604.01022 . Bibcode :2016A&A...591A..22S . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201527916 . S2CID 119255408 .