NGC 411 is a globular cluster located approximately 55,000 pc (180,000 ly) from Earth in the constellation Tucana.

It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, pretty large, round, gradually very little brighter middle".

[5] At a distance of about 180,000 light years (55,000 parsecs), it is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud.

[3] NGC 411 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013, showing an abundance of stars ranging from blue to red.

[6] In particular, this seemed to suggest that the cluster was much younger than previously thought: its age has been estimated at 1.5 billion years old, relatively young in astronomical terms.