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References

Reference fieldSource
DAML02Version 2.7, retreived 2007 July 17
http://www.astro.iag.usp.br/~wilton/
[1931AnLun...2....1C]Collinder, P. (1931) On structured properties of open galactic clusters and their spatial distribution. Ann. Obs. Lund, 2, 1.
[1931AnLun...2....1C]
SIMBADSimbad 4
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
VizieR [catalogue ID]http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR
WEBDAhttp://www.univie.ac.at/webda/
Archinal & Hynes (2003)Archinal, B.A. & Hynes, S.J. (2003) Star clusters. Willmann-Bell.
[2003stcl.book.....A]
NGC/IChttp://www.ngcic.org/pubdb.htm
DSH_AST_BESTDownloaded 2007 Aug 04 from "deepskyhunters" Yahoo! Group
"List of pretty visual asterisms [2006-07-31]"
DSH v 10 (2007/06)Downloaded 2007 Aug 04 from "deepskyhunters" Yahoo! Group
DSH10_PUBD_[2007.6].txt "complete public domain DSH-list = RA-sorted list of DSH01--05"
SEDS-1Downloaded 2007 Aug 11 from SEDS
http://seds.org/messier/more/m045_tab.html
Skiff20080430(with various end-figures) "Precise coordinates for NGC and IC objects" by Brian Skiff (2008 April 30) and references therein.
Corwin 2004History and Accurate Positions for the NGC/IC Objects
Steinicke (2009)Steinicke, Wolfgang (2009 February 21) Revised New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue.
NGC 1515ANGC 1515A, Fairall 397, ESO 156-34
Bica et al. (2006) Properties of 153 Galactic globular clusters.
[J/A+A/450/105]
Froebrich et al. (2007) A systematic survey for infrared star clusters with |b| < 20 deg using 2MASS. MNRAS, 374, 399
[ADS: 2007MNRAS.374..399F] - [Preprint: astro-ph/0610146]
Kharchenko et al. (2009) Shape parameters for 650 open clusters.
[J/A+A/495/807]
Maciel et al. (1994) Abundance gradients from disk PNs.
[J/A+A/282/436]
van den Bergh et al. (2006) Diameters of Galactic open star clusters.
[J/AJ/131/1559]

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