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Old 23-09-2012, 02:18 AM
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Worth using the excellent cloudsofmagellan.net.au charts for fuzzy blobs like these! I had the pleasure of seeing this little beauty in an 18" scope at a star party last week - it's open cluster Kron 3, visible in the following image (K-3 is on panel 9, click for a labelled version). It was also mentioned in an article by Les Dalrymple in October 2011's Australian Sky & Telescope "A Little Cloudy". It's described by Les as a 6 billion year old cluster.

Charts are here, and there's similar charts for the LMC too.
http://www.cloudsofmagellan.net.au/smckey.htm

Clouds of Magellan charts are brilliant for identifying the various fuzzies and patches of the LMC and SMC.
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