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Originally Posted by astrospotter
I always enjoy a nice 2 degree or so wide APO refractor view of M24. You get a very busy field of a ga-zillion stars broken up with some objects.
There are two great examples of dark nebula in B92 and the less obvious B93 (not as impressive as coal sack but still nice). Then there is a small but wonderful open cluster in there by the name of Ngc6603 with a very fine line of stars almost as if to give this open cluster a 'major axis'. There are other objects there but the planitary Ngc6567 does not catch ones eye and neither does SH2-39. There is another more 'crude' open cluster that sort of stands out called Cr469 that is 1/3 the way from the big dark nebula of B92 towards the nice fine open cluster of 6603.
Just a fun diversion and M24 can even be picked out visually so easy to find just 7 degrees North-West of M22
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Thankyou Mark! What you explained sounds fabulous. I will have a look - but the clouds need to buzz off first.
