With somewhat diminished enthusiasm for my purchase, I started my read-through from page 1. And when I got to Southern Gem #46 – The Spider Spit Cluster, Little Jewell Box ?? Hey, my No.1 open cluster was there after all – NGC 3293, The Gem.
Spider Spit Cluster!
How I hate some of the crap names given by this crass American naming game
Silver coin, Spider Spit,Spanish dancer,ect.
And now we have and a plethora of other self made catalogues such as the Caldwell,O'meara and so on,and to think the NGC/IC was made to bring things together.
Cheers
