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March’s first object is nothing less than dazzling. You’ll find it surrounding the bluish magnitude 2.7 Theta (θ) Carinae, so it’s sometimes called the Theta Carinae Cluster. More commonly, however, observers call it the Southern Pleiades because its discoverer, French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, compared it to M45. Lacaille encountered IC 2602 March 3, 1752.
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Bakich, M.E. (2010). March. In: 1,001 Celestial Wonders to See Before You Die. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1777-5_3
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