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Old 29-09-2010, 05:40 PM
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Very nice selection!

Using your 'southern' perspective, I suggest for binoculars two more objects that I enjoyed when I was near the equator. Even if they are not at the top in this period, october is also a good month to see (and sketch) them.

NGC 6397 in Ara: a nice and brilliant globular cluster, and one of the closest one to our solar system, at 2200 pc (7200 ly). Using telescopes it can be partially resolved into stars.

NGC 6025, between Norma and Triangulum Australe: this very elonged open cluster at the edge of Milky Way seems to have an age similar to the Pleiades. Nice both with binoculars and small reflectors, the brightest stars are 9th magnitude. NGC 6025, at 830 pc (2700 ly), may belong to an inter-arm region of our Galaxy, or at the external edge of the Sagittarius Arm.

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