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Old 09-04-2010, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by mental4astro View Post
NGC 2438: in Puppis. An extra tasty morsel as it is a Planetary Nebula that lies in the same line of view as M46. It actually lies far behind M46.

Mental.
Thanks Mental,
Some easy and, of course, some challenging ones.

The planetary nebula NGC 2438 (at distance 2900 ly) is in fact between us and M46 (at distance 5400 ly).

Regards, Rob.
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