Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 14 09.88
- Declination
- +05 ° 59 ′ 15.8 ″
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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.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q49680” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.