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Originally Posted by Placidus
Lovely, Steve.
Geoff mentioned that although the stars are blue supergiants (typical of a young open cluster, I guess) they are extremely reddened by absorption by intervening dust. I suppose that the reason why (a) the cluster has tiny angular diameter and (b) the very bright blue field stars are not thus reddened is that the cluster is very far away.
Great work,
Mike
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Thanks Mike. It's about 15,000 light years away which is about double the distance of clusters such as the Jewelbox. There's obviously a lot of dust in the way.
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Originally Posted by Andy01
That's quite an extraordinary find Steve, well done!  |
Thanks Andy
