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The fornax dwarf, with six of its own globulars lies pretty low in the south for most of the North American viewers. Indeed, it rises about 22 degrees above a fairly bright town for me so is a challenge. The galaxy is a satellite of the Milky way and was first imaged in 1938 by Harlow Shapley.The major globular, ngc 1049, was actually charted before the galaxy and is located almost directly above the main cluster, the blue fuzzy star. Clusters 3 and 4 are to the left of the large yellow star, number one is at the upper right corner, number 2 is probably the fuzzy star at about 5 o'clock and number 5 is probably the brighter fuzzy star at far ten o'clock... Please feel free to correct this if you have better info, my sources are pretty thin.. thanks..
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