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The
Southern sky is wonderful and filled with any kind of splendors that us,
Northern hemisphere observers, cannot even imagine! But the Southern
counterpart of Pleiades is an exception, as the stars are dimmer and
without any surrounding nebula. Nevertheless an apparent magnitude of 1.9 is notable. And a nice and compact open cluster
(Melotte 101, below) is able to counterbalance the absence of a nebula. Furthermore the background
is filled with dark nebulae in front of the Milky Way stars of Carina.