NGC 1818

NGC 1818
A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 1818. Credit: HST/NASA/ESA.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Dorado
Right ascension	05h 04m 13.8s[1]
Declination	-66° 26′ 02″[1]
Distance	164 kly
Apparent magnitude (V)	9.7B[1]
Physical characteristics
Estimated age	20 Myr[2]
Notable features	Rare young globular
See also: Globular cluster, List of globular clusters

NGC 1818 is a young globular cluster, estimated to be only about 20 million years old. Almost all known globulars have their age estimated to be between 4-14 billion years. It is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} (SIMBAD 2007)
2. ^ (Johnson et al. 2001)

References

• Johnson, R. A.; Beaulieu, S. F.; Gilmore, G. F.; Hurley, J.; Santiago, B. X.; Tanvir, N. R.; Elson, R. A. W. (2001), "Young star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: NGC 1805 and 1818", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 324 (2): 367–380, arXiv:astro-ph/0012389, Bibcode 2001MNRAS.324..367J, doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04291.x, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001MNRAS.324..367J 
• SIMBAD (January 8, 2007), Results for NGC 1818, SIMBAD, Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg, http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?protocol=html&Ident=NGC+1818 

Astronomical catalogs
NGC:	NGC 1816 - NGC 1817 - NGC 1818 - NGC 1819 - NGC 1820

Coordinates: 05^h 04^m 13.8^s, −66° 26′ 02″