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Old 15-04-2014, 11:24 AM
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Westerlund 2__pretty picture Number 3

And yet another pretty picture of Westerlund 2.

This one was downloaded from the Aladin online sky atlas
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This is an image from the ESO Sky survey, in the red.
It was digitized with MAMA.

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Using the full Aladin applet or the standalone Aladin application, enables coordinates to be easily superposed on this image;
and yes, Dana is absolutely right......... the dense region of multiple very faint stars is only two arcminutes across.
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