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NGC2046

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:35:37.6
Declination: -70:14:27
Constellation: MEN
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, R, gbM, 1st of 7
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 2046. See NGC 2052.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2046 24" (4/9/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the first in a rich field of 8 NGC clusters (with the brightest NGC 2058). At 200x, it appeared bright, fairly small, slightly elongated WSW-ENE in the direction of a mag 13 star just 0.8' SW. The core seems offset from the center to the NE end or a separate knot is attached at the following end. NGC 2047 lies 3.2' NNE. Located 6' SE of mag 8.2 HD 37762.