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Another Messier Global, M12 2022-06-09
How did this happen? What does it mean?
NGC6946, redux 2022-06-08
As fate would have it, more light was available last night. Not great, but better. Here’s the larger view:
NGC6946, the Fireworks Galaxy 2022-06-08
NGC6946 is dim. I only had about three hours total exposure; it would be better with twice that. Unfortunately, the weather is sketchy, and I probably won’t be able to collect those photons any time soon. Stellarium has several fanciful names for NGC6939 — the “Ghost Bush Cluster”, the “Flying Geese Cluster”, and the “Silk […]
La Bomba Volcanica Gigantesca 2022-06-04
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—”Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, […]