Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Puppis (Pup)  ·  Contains:  M 93  ·  NGC 2447
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M93, Kirby Collins
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M93

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M93

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M93 is an open cluster in the constellation Puppis (southeast of Sirius).  Admiral Smyth described it as a "neat group" of "star-fish shape," and added this anecdote: "The unlucky Chevalier d'Angos...mistook this cluster for a comet: from which, and some still more suspicious assertions, my excellent friend, Baron de Zach, was induced to term any egregious astronomical blunders - Angosiades."

M93 is 3600 light years away, and contains some 80 members in a space 20-25 light years across.

I ran out of time and only got 19 minutes of B, but still came out OK, I think.

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M93, Kirby Collins