Q674626
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Key facts
- Right ascension
- 01 14 41.6
- Declination
- −73 ° 17 ′ 51 ″
- Other designations
- Kron 66, Lindsay 97, IRAS 01133-7333, LI-SMC 201.
- Constellation
- Tucana
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC 0460 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- IRAS 01133-7333
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-04-11
- apparent magnitude
- 12.5
- declination
- -73.29756
- right ascension
- 18.67330
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 460
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 460 is an open cluster with a nebula located in the constellation Tucana. It was possibly observed on August 1, 1826, by James Dunlop, though it was officially discovered on April 11, 1834, by John Herschel. Dreyer described it as "very faint (in Nubecular Minor)," with Nubecular Minor referring to the Small Magellanic Cloud. DeLisle Stewart described it as "faint, pretty large, irregularly round, gradually brighter middle, mottled but not resolved, 2nd of several."
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