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Sharpless2-313 - Planetary Nebula in Hydra690 viewsAbout 400 light-years away. Also known as Abell 35 or PN G303.6+40.0.
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Totality minus 10 minutes689 viewsC2 - 9 min 29 sec
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Post-Totality 3688 viewsCome! And in the fires of Spring
The winter garment of Repentance fling;
The Bird of Time hath but a little way to fly
And Lo! The Bird is on the wing!
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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IC405 - The Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga688 viewsNarrowband view of an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga north of the celestial equator, surrounding the bluish, irregular variable star AE Aurigae. About 1500 light-years away.
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12 minutes to Second Contact686 viewsSeems like the Moon has a long way to go to annularity - will it make it in time?
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Totality 2686 viewsIf you look closely, a prominence can be seen at approximately 9 o'clock on the disk of the eclipsed Sun.
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Sh2-290 - Planetary Nebula in Cancer686 viewsAlso known as Abell 31 and PK 219+31.1. Ancient planetary nebula, about 2000 light-years away, one of the largest in the sky but very dim.
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Sunset, 7:57 PM684 viewsThe unfiltered setting Sun.
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M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy684 viewsAbout 3 million light-years away, this is the third-largest member of the Local Group, which includes M31 and the Milky Way.
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Tulip Nebula - Sh2-101684 viewsAn emission nebula about 6,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The shape vaguely resembles the outline of a tulip.
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First contact plus ~45 minutes683 viewsAbout 3/4 through pre-totality.
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NGC1499 - The California Nebula, narrowband version 683 viewsA more conventional narrowband rendition of the California Nebula, mapping H-alpha to gold and O-III to blue
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