RE: Open clusters?

From: Alsing, Paul ^lt;palsing_at_No-Spam>
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 14:48:56 MST

Richard,
 
You might be thinking of NGC 6946 and NGC 6939 in nearby Cepheus. See
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/images/cep/ngc6946.jpg
<http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/images/cep/ngc6946.jpg>
 
A classic near-far pair, if you can get enough FOV. Beautiful.
 
\Paul Alsing

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Hey, what's that open in Camelopardalis that also includes a galaxy in a wide
field view? We were looking at that one at Calstar a few years back.
 
Richard
Received on Mon Apr 18 14:50:22 2005


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