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The Coalsack Nebula and the galactic area surrounding it played a large role in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Universe, particularly The Mote in God's Eye and the sequel The Gripping Hand, both co-authored with Larry Niven. In these novels, a human-colonized system, New Caledonia, is on the opposite side of the Coalsack from Earth.
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D — James Dunlop (A catalogue of nebulae and clusters of stars in the southern hemisphere, observed at Parramatta in New South Wales) DA — Dominion Observatory List A [16] Danjon — Andre Danjon (double stars) Danks — (open star clusters) (for example: Danks 1 & 2, located near the northeastern Centaurus section of the Coalsack Nebula)
BZ Crucis is the bright star between the open clusters NGC 4609 and Hogg 15. HD 110432 is a Be star in the south-east of Crux, behind the center of the southern hemisphere's dark Coalsack Nebula.
Coalsack Nebula: Dark Nebula: 0.61 Crux - C100 IC 2944: Lambda Centauri Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 6 Centaurus: 4.5 C101 NGC 6744 Spiral Galaxy: 34,000 Pavo: 9 C102 IC 2602: Theta Car Cluster: Open Cluster: 0.492 Carina: 1.9 C103 NGC 2070: Tarantula Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 170 Dorado: 8.2 C104 NGC 362 Globular Cluster: 27.7 ...
See also the references to names from other cultures at dark cloud constellations: The Horsehead Nebula. Coalsack Nebula; Cone Nebula; Dark Doodad Nebula; Dark Horse Nebula; Horsehead Nebula ; Pipe Nebula (also see Dark Horse Nebula; includes Barnard 59, 77 and 78) Snake Nebula (also see Dark Horse Nebula) Keyhole Nebula
The Great Rift covers one third of the Milky Way, and is flanked by strips of numerous stars, such as the Cygnus Star Cloud. [2] West of the Cepheus Clouds, the Funnel cloud/Le Gentil 3 and the bordering North America Nebula, the Great Rift starts with the Northern Coalsack at the constellation of Cygnus, where it is known as the Cygnus Rift. [3]
The modern designation Kappa Crucis has been assigned to one of the stars in the base of the A-shaped asterism of the cluster. This cluster is one of the youngest known, with an estimated age of 14 million years. It has a total integrated magnitude 4.2, is located 2.16 kpc, or 7,060 light years from Earth, [1] and contains just over 100 stars.