Thread: Southern Pleiades but whats the nebula
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Old 10-01-2009, 12:40 AM
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Hi Trevor, the nebula is NGC 3324 otherwise known as the Gabriela Mistral Nebula after the poet of the same name:

http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/NGC%203324.htm

Mike
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