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Also known as New General Catalogue 136, OCL 295

open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia

Key facts

Right ascension
00 31 36.0
Declination
+61 ° 30 ′ 36 ″
Other designations
Collinder 4
Constellation
Cassiopeia

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
open cluster
Constellation
Cassiopeia
Distance from Earth
13350
Image
NGC 0136 DSS.jpg
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catalog code
[KPS2012] MWSC 0056
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1788-11-26
right ascension
7.9000
declination
61.5100
epoch
J2000.0
right ascension component of proper motion
0.31
declination component of proper motion
-1.16
Commons category
NGC 136
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 136 is an open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on November 26, 1788.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 136” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.