It is the oldest globular cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC),[5] which is a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

The compiler of the New General Catalogue, Danish astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer, described this object as "pretty bright, pretty small, little extended, very gradually brighter middle".

[1] This cluster forms part of the West Halo, a region that is moving outward with respect to the rest of the SMC.

The second generation forms a relatively low ~32% of the total population, but this amount is enhanced in the central portion of the cluster.

[10] In 1998, 42 potential blue stragglers were identified via imaging by the Hubble Space Telescope.