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Old 09-12-2010, 08:00 AM
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Hi all, it seems that classification systems and catalogues aren't perfect.
NED and Simbad classes NGC 2034 as an "association of stars".

http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-b...o#Attributes_0

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/si...&QueryType=ned

Perhaps a nebulous look or glow is a cloud of unresolved stars. When does an "association" become a "cluster"?
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