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Old 10-02-2009, 09:03 AM
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Jeff, that is the best image I have seen of 3532. It shows the dark arrow in it well. The cluster was discovered by Lacaille in Jan 1752. He described it as a "Prodigal cluster of small stars, very compressed, filling the figure of a semi-circle of 20 to 25 arc min in diameter."
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