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        Messier object 109
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        SOURCE:  http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/messiercat.html
        Acknowledgment: Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Centre/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
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          This image is from the  Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) project. The images from this project have been released into the  public domain.  2MASS  kindly requests acknowledgement in one of the following forms, the longer of which is preferred. 
           
            - Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Centre/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
 
            - Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF.
 
            
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