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Originally Posted by ving
QUACK QUACK QUACK!!!
someone mentioned dark lanes, well i followed these around for a while trying to make a shape out of them (preferably a duck shape) and i kinda did... well kinda.
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LOL - the cluster gets its name not because it looks like a duck, but rather because it looks like a FLOCK OF DUCKS in flight.
Dunno what they do down under, but here, when the ducks and geese migrate, they fly in a big "V" pattern for aerodynamic efficiency.
The cluster has a V shape too it, with the brightest star near the head of the flock (narrow end of the V). The dark area is the hollow in the middle of th "V" where there are no "ducks".
I was studying this one last night using my 10x50 Binoculars and was suprised how much I could acutally see. While I couldn't make out the dark area in the middle, I could easily see the triangular shape and with averted vision, I thought I could see a bright point near the head of the V.
Very nice OC, no matter what the instrument.
