NGC 146
Sign in to saveAlso known as OCL 299, New General Catalogue 146
open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 33 03.9
- Declination
- +63 ° 18 ′ 32 ″
- Distance
- ~10000 (~3000)
- Estimated age
- <10 Myr
- Other designations
- Cr 5, OCl 299, C 0030+630
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Distance from Earth
- 3032
- Image
- Kappa Cassiopeiae, NGC146 and NGC133.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1829-10-27
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0059
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 9.1
- right ascension
- 8.275
- declination
- 63.300
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -4.68
- declination component of proper motion
- 2.64
- Commons category
- NGC 146
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 146 is a small open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1829 using his father's 18.7 inch reflecting telescope.
Location
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 146” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.