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name: Musca
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created_by: skybber
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created_date: 2021-06-29 13:12:26.974967
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updated_by: skybber
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updated_date: 2022-12-31 15:34:58.764658
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A small constellation of the southern sky lying between the Chameleon and the Crux in the Milky Way, not visible from our latitudes. The constellation of the Musca is quite a striking feature, although apart from α Muscae its stars do not exceed third magnitude. The star λ Muscae is white and together with μ Muscae, which is red, forms a contrasting pair in the binocular. Of the deep-sky objects in the constellation, two globular clusters that are visible to the binocular attract attention: NGC 4372 and NGC 4833, as well as a small portion of the dark Coal Sack Nebula that extends in from the neighboring Crux. To the northwest of NGC 4372, there is again an interestingly curled dark filament a little bit of a degree in size - the Dark Doodad Nebula. |