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Old 06-06-2009, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mozzie View Post
thanks john while at spsp on the sat night some of the nsw members done some presintations. this member was showing pictures and he also done some drawings while observing im shore there was 200 or 400 clusters of galaxies it was very interesting im trying to find that catalogue name and observe them
mozzie
Peter,

They are the "Hickson Compact Galaxy Groups". I think there are around 100 of these groups that average about 566 members. They are also very faint, 15-16th magnitude.

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Glenn
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