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Excellent post, Dana. I took a look at E3 six years back on one of my visits to Australia. I'm curious about the few "resolved" stars I noted as Les didn't mention seeing any. Do you know the magnitudes of the brightest members? This observation was through a 24-inch f/3.7.
At 200x, three faint stars were resolved over a 1' low surface brightness hazy glow with no concentration. In addition two brighter field stars are situated at the outside edge of the glow. At 260x, a fourth superimposed star was glimpsed, though these are possibly line of sight stars and perhaps the cluster, itself, was unresolved. Located 43' SSW of NGC 2915, though the precise position was pinned down moving 13' W of a mag 7.7 star using a 16" pair of mag 12/14 stars as a reference that is situated at the midpoint of this line.
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