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Vinony's link graph records 893 inbound references to NGC 46, and connects out to list of stars in Pisces, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and epoch.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1852, Discoveries by Edward Joshua Cooper and NGC objects.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 14 09.88
- Declination
- +05 ° 59 ′ 15.8 ″
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- 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
- discoverer or inventor
- Edward Joshua Cooper
- radial velocity
- -1.17
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 19.886
- declination component of proper motion
- 2.416
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 46” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.