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The winter sky is coming our way, and one of its deep-sky stalwarts is the pair of clusters M46 and M47. M47 is the coarse one.


I turn the big glass onto M46 for two reasons.
The first is that I find rich clusters prettier than their coarse counterparts.
The second is the embedded planetray nebula NGC 2438 ... I first saw it through the nine-inch Clark refractor at the university where I did graduate studies ... then, when I moved to darker skies i could detect it in a 130mm refractor of my own. cn

 
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