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NGC46
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:14:10.0
Declination: +5:59:14
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 11.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Cooper
Year of discovery: 1852
Discovery aperture: 13.5
Observational
Summary description: Nebula (Auw. 2)
Sub-type: *
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 46 is a single star. Included as a nebula in the Markree Catalogue, it
was reobserved twice in its catalogued place by Auwers who notes it as "...
a completely sharp nebulous star 11th magnitude (9 arcmin north and 1 min 29
sec preceding a star 7.8 mag)." The 7.8 mag star is SAO 109091 which is
exactly where Auwers says it is with respect to NGC 46. This positively
identifies N46 as the star, as does the Markree position which is within 4
arcsec of the GSC position.