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Orion's missing arrow

Started by dsimons, 02/19/2004 09:06AM
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After looking at several clusters in Gemini I keep running across an arrow head shaped asterism near Mu Gemini. Now that Saturn is in the same area, I think it is even more noticeable. It is better seen with low powers. Does anyone else also see this shape? I have tried to outline it below in Desktop Universe.

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The arrow-shaped Collinder 65 is in that general region but I'm not sure that it's what you saw.

http://www.arunah.org/VFA/1997/17-Spring/DST-1997-Spring/dst-1997-spring.html

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