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Totality minus 52 minutes680 viewsC2 - 51 min 59 sec
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Pre-Totality 5678 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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A few minutes after First Contact676 viewsThe Moon is nibbling on the Sun.
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Messier 12, Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus676 viewsAbout 16,400 light years from Earth; diameter about 75 light-years. It is loosely packed and has an unusually small number of low-mass stars.
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Messier 88 - Spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices675 viewsA member of the Virgo Cluster although it appears in the neighboring constellation of Coma Berenices. About 47 million light-years distant from Earch; boasts a 100-million solar mass black hole at its core.
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Maximum Totality674 viewsWith a glorious corona.
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NGC281 - PacMan Nebula, narrowband version673 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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Sharpless2-313 - Planetary Nebula in Hydra673 viewsAbout 400 light-years away. Also known as Abell 35 or PN G303.6+40.0.
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The Sun sets in the weeds672 viewsThe still-partially-eclipsed sun is being increasingly obscured by tree branches on a distant hillside - but they look more like weeds in this view.
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Nearing sunset672 viewsThe foreground trees show up a little better in this shot.
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NGC 6522 - Globular Cluster in Sagittarius672 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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NGC1499 - The California Nebula, narrowband version 671 viewsA more conventional narrowband rendition of the California Nebula, mapping H-alpha to gold and O-III to blue
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