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Old 08-06-2019, 01:18 PM
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Strings of Pearl IC2488 or Hoopskirt cluster

For something completely different in ten minutes of clear sky before the clouds rolled in , a string of stars. Not named by the Harvard Glass plate crowd but Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, 180 million years old , and containing many red giants. Not to be confused with String of Pearls. Not too exciting really but way over to the right centre is the red planetary nebula NGC 2899 . Next time.
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