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Old 08-07-2013, 12:10 PM
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My question pertains to its plotting. In my more recent edition sky atlas, instead of NGC 6380, we have SL28 - a dark nebula! What is going on, just where is NGC 6380?
John, CdC plots NGC 6380 at Mean J2000 RA: 17h34m 30.0s DE:-39°04'00"
in the corner of SL28 Mean J2000 RA: 17h35m 18.0s DE:-39°14'00"

SL 28 is listed as 30x15 arcmin and NGC 6380 as 3.9x3.9 arcmin

In Uranometria 2000 Vol 2 NGC 6380 is on map 164. It should be tha same map number in the one volume edition.
In The Night Sky Observers Guide Vol 2 they are both on page 348.
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