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NGC2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster/Cone Nebula731 viewsBoth a cluster and a nebula, NGC2264 is located in the constellation Monoceros, 2,300 light-years from Earth.
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Messier 104 - The Sombrero Galaxy731 viewsUnique spiral galaxy 31 million light-years from Earth on the border of the constellations Virgo and Corvus. It has a bright nucleus, an unusually large central bulge, and a prominent dust lane in its outer disk.
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Latrines730 viewsPay Toilets, not coin-operated. An adjunct to the Scolastica Baths, located next to the Temple of Hadrian.
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Gates of Mazeus and Mithridates730 viewsServed as entrances to the Commercial Agora. Built by two former slaves to honor Emperor Augustus, who gave them their freedom.
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Desecration730 viewsA rude, unwashed barbarian celebrates his triumphant, sacrilegious intrusion into the sacred precincts of the Nymphaeum, as one of his fellow-heathens looks on approvingly. (At least he didn't damage any of the precious artifacts; previous barbarians had done that.)
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Kaya Side Hotel near totality730 viewsThis is a slightly blurry view of the Kaya Side Hotel, as seen from the beachfront where we watched the eclipse, taken close to totality, when the light was getting low, the camera lens was wide open and the shutter speed too slow to deal with camera shake.
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Totality 1730 viewsAnd here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on ...
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Pre-Totality 5730 viewsAnd now at Kermanshah the gate
Dark empty and the withered grass
And through the twilight now the late
Few travelers in the westward pass
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Coals to Newcastle730 viewsIt was the Ottoman Turks who introduced coffee to Europe, so there is some irony in finding an outlet of a coffee shop chain originating in the USA, and now Australian-owned, in Istanbul.
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Gert the Grey Fox730 viewsA tree-climbing fox who was hired by the Museum in 2020 and has proven to be a big draw.
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The Leo Galaxy Trio730 viewsA famous triplet of spiral galaxies: Lower right - Messier 66; upper right, Messier 65; lower left, NGC 3628. All about 35 million light years away in the constellation Leo the Lion.
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Cumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022730 viewsCumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022
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