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Nearing sunset602 viewsThe foreground trees show up a little better in this shot.
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NGC 6543 - Cat's Eye Nebula602 viewsA structurally very complex planetary nebula about 3000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco. In large-telescope images it has the appearance of a cat's eye, but in my 5" refractor it appears simply as a bright blue star with a halo. The small spiral galaxy off to the left is probably NGC 6552.
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Messier 59, Messier 60 and friends602 viewsM59 is the eilliptical galaxy in the center of the frame; above it is the elliptical galaxy M60 with nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4647. Numerous other galaxies are also in the picture, including spirals NGC4606 and NGC4607 in the bottom left quadrant.
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M74, Spiral Galaxy in Pisces601 viewsGrand design spiral galaxy with two clearly defined spiral arms winding counterclockwise from center. About 32 million light-years distant.
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The Final Sliver598 viewsA few seconds before totality.
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NGC281 - PacMan Nebula, narrowband version598 viewsA narrowband version of the PacMan, obtained with a one-shot color CMOS camera and an IDAS NBZ nebula enhancement filter, with H-alpha mapped to red and O-III to blue.
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NGC2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster/Cone Nebula598 viewsBoth a cluster and a nebula, NGC2264 is located in the constellation Monoceros, 2,300 light-years from Earth.
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NGC 6522 - Globular Cluster in Sagittarius597 viewsPossibly the oldest star cluster in the Milky Way,[4] with an age of more than 12 billion years. Located in an area of the sky known as Baade's Window, named for the astronomer Walter Baade, who first recognized its signficance. Baade's Window is an area of the sky with relatively low amounts of interstellar dust along the line of sight from the Earth, allowing unobstructed observation of the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Totality minus 52 minutes596 viewsC2 - 51 min 59 sec
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M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy596 viewsBarred spiral galaxy, 152,000 light-years in diameter and 2.5 million light-years from Earth.
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NGC 457 - The Owl Cluster595 viewsAn open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 7,900 light-years distance from our Solar System. The "eyes" are the magnitude 5 star Phi-1 Cassiopeiae and magnitude 7 Phi-2 Cassiopeiae.
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M15 - Globular cluster in Pegasus595 viewsContaining over 100,000 stars, 175 light-years in diameter, 33,600 light years from Earth. This is one of the oldest (12 billion years) and most densely packed globulars in the Milky Way.
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