Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 14 09.88
- Declination
- +05 ° 59 ′ 15.8 ″
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 446.4086
- Image
- NGC 0046 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1852-10-22
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2742328616973755776
- apparent magnitude
- 10.612
- Commons category
- NGC 46
- right ascension
- 3.54116766820530
- declination
- 5.98772986646280
- parallax
- 3.390
- radial velocity
- -1.17
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 19.886
- declination component of proper motion
- 2.416
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NGC 46, occasionally referred to as PGC 5067596, is a star located approximately 1,420 light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was first discovered on October 22, 1852, by Irish astronomer Edward Joshua Cooper, who incorrectly identified it as a nebula.
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