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NGC 1946

Cluster* SIMBAD Cl* 8 papers

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Right ascension: 05h 25m 15.42s
Declination: −66° 23′ 39.5″
Galactic l, b: 276.48, -33.28
Magnitude V: 12.62
Angular size: 1′ × 0.9′

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
2MASS J05252581-6623186	Evolved*	66.01″	—
LMC-BM 27-1	C*	126.8″	—
LHA 120-N 48D	EmObj	129.4″	—
NGC 1945	EmObj	135.7″	—
SV* HV 2507	ClassicalCep	137.5″	—
OGLE LMC519.15.018394	RRLyrae	137.8″	19.15
OGLE LMC-RRLYR-32425	RRLyrae	147.1″	20.01
OGLE LMC-ECL-33133	EclBin	175.2″	18.21
OGLE LMC-RRLYR-32386	RRLyrae	175.3″	19.03
2MASS J05244944-6622187	Star	175.7″	—
OGLE LMC-CEP-3962	ClassicalCep	189.3″	16.47

Provenance

where this card came from

Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
Seeded from the bulk archive load; no per-object fetch yet.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/ngc-1946 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.