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BINOCULAR TOUR With Steve Tonkin
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
|February 2023
This month we're off to a dog show, finding the best in class in Canis Major
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1.M41
This open cluster is bright enough for you to see it with your naked eye in a transparent sky. It is 4° south of mag. 1.1 Sirius Alpha a) Canis Majoris) and is large enough to be an obvious cluster of stars in 10x50 binoculars. Using averted vision at a dark site, you should be able to resolve up to 10 of the brighter stars against the background glow of fainter members. 0) SEEN IT
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