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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6011.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6011. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Stellar Populations And Star Clusters

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M11 is an open or galactic cluster in Scutum (2 degrees west and a bit south of η Scuti). It has a very interesting arrow-shaped outline in its densest part and a V-shaped group of stars ahead of the arrow. This prompted Admiral Smyth to describe it as a `flight of wild ducks' and it is therefore sometimes known as the `wild duck' cluster. The German astronomer Gottfried Kirch first discovered th...

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