NGC 869 and 884 - The Double Cluster in Perseus10 viewsOver 7500 light-years away, these twin open clusters each contain over 300 blue-white supergiant stars; they are about 13 million years old.
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The Sun - Just prior to First Contact (Hydrogen-Alpha View)10 viewsVenus has not yet begun to encroach on the Sun's disk
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First Contact plus 1 minute 28 seconds10 viewsThe nibble on the sun is a little larger.
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Second Contact10 viewsFirst contact plus 16 minutes - Venus has now "detached" itself from the Sun's rim and is heading inward.
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Squatter 10 viewsSomeone beat me to my pad, so I went up to the Upper Pads area, where I got a better view anyway.
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NGC 891- Silver Sliver Galaxy10 viewsAn edge-on spiral galaxy in Andromeda; about 30 million light-years distant; similar in size to the Milky Way.
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Messier 106 and companions10 viewsThe large spiral galaxy at left is M106, lying at a distance of 22 to 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. A myriad of other galaxies are in the frame, of which the two most prominent are NGC 4248 (closest to M106) and NGC 4217 (disk at right).
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M5 - Globular cluster in Serpens10 viewsA globular cluster - one of the largest known, with a radius of 200 light-years - in the constellation Serpens. Distance from Earth is about 24,500 light-years.
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NGC 7635 - The Bubble Nebula10 viewsEmission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. The bubble is created by the stellar wind from a hot, young star.
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IC 1848 - The Soul Nebula10 viewsAn emission nebula in Cassiopeia, eastern neighbor of the Heart Nebula, IC 1805. About 6,500 light-years away, it spans 100 light-years, and is too big at that distance to fit into my telescope's field of view, so only part of it is seen here.
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M1 - The Crab Nebula10 viewsRemnant of a supernova observed by the Chinese in 1054 AD. Found in the constellation Taurus, about 6500 light-years from Earth.
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M27, The Dumbbell Nebula10 viewsThe first planetary nebula to be discovered, the Dumbbell is 1227 light-years from Earth in the constellation Vulpecula.
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