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Tracking down the Big Game

Started by David Simons, 08/28/2008 07:28AM
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Hi Folks,

I'll be at a dark sky spot this friday (Sonama Lake for you N. Cal. folks) with some big binoculars. I hope to track down some of the large open clusters. I'll be looking at the likes of M23,24,25,IC4756 and NGC6633 around the Sagittarius, Scutum and Serpens area.

Any other suggestions for some big open clusters ? wink

(picture borrowed from: http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/scutum/constell.html)

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When you're at IC 4756 and NGC6633 go a little further west to IC4665 near Cebalrai (Beta Ophiuchi).
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