NGC 2363

NGC 2363 is a star-forming region within the galaxy NGC 2366. It has been used as an example of such a region with a very low metallicity but some determinations have found its metallicity merely moderately low.

Note that the term NGC 2363 is ambiguous despite its use in published research: there is not complete agreement on which currently-viewed object corresponds to the New General Catalogue's (NGC's) object number 2363; NGC, published in 1888, lists number 2363 as an object with 1860-epoch coordinates 071352+691857, with an inconclusive description. One of the candidate-objects is the above-described SF region (which is also sometimes classified as a galaxy of some sort), and the other is NGC 2366's center, generally classified as an active galactic nucleus (AGN).