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Totality699 viewsTotality began at 7:41:20 and lasted for about 25 seconds.
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Sharpless2-112699 viewsEmission nebula in Cygnus, energized by the star BD +45 3216 embedded within it.
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A few minutes after First Contact698 viewsThe Moon is nibbling on the Sun.
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M85 - Lenticular or Elliptical Galaxy in Coma Berenices698 viewsM85 is a lenticular galaxy in the process of transitioning to an elliptical galaxy. It lies on the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster and is 60 million light-years away, is estimated to be 125,000 light-years across, and is interacting with the smaller nearby galaxy NGC 4394.
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Messier 88 - Spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices698 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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22 Minutes after Third Contact697 viewsC3 + 21:49
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Afterglow697 viewsThe still-partially-eclipsed sun has just disappeared below the horizon.
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IC1805 - The Heart Nebula, narrowband version697 viewsNarrowband rendition of the Heart Nebula, using the IDAS NBZ nebula enhancement filter to capture the H-alpha and O-III emissions; Fish Head Nebula seen as extension of Heart at lower left.
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About 4 minutes from Second Contact696 viewsThe Moon is rapidly overtaking the Sun.
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NGC 6522 - Globular Cluster in Sagittarius696 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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Pre-Totality 4695 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change
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NGC 6543 - Cat's Eye Nebula695 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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