NGC 1466 is the New General Catalogue designation for a globular cluster in the deep southern constellation of Hydrus.

It is located in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud,[5] which is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

The object was discovered November 26, 1834 by English astronomer John Herschel.

[7] John Dreyer described it as "pF, pS, iR, glbM, *7 f", meaning "pretty faint, pretty small, irregular round, gradually a little brighter middle, with a 7th magnitude star nearby".

[5] In photographs, the cluster spans an apparent size of 3.50 arc minutes.