Archives for the 'star clusters' Category
Merry Christmas
Published on 24 Dec 2008 at 11:51 am.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
The image at the top of this post is a European Southern Observatory image of NGC 2264. The image hit the web a week or so ago, but I thought that I’d hold off posting it until now. NGC 2264 is located in Monoceros, rising in the evenings this time of year. […]
M 44
Published on 23 Apr 2007 at 5:15 pm.
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For the next few nights, the Moon will be near the star cluster M44. This star cluster is the 44th object on Messier’s list of things not to confused with comets. It is one of the few star clusters visible to the naked eye. However, it is nowhere near as bright as […]
M 45
Published on 29 Oct 2006 at 8:48 pm.
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We had a star party this past weekend. As usually happens, the public got tired and went away before the astronomers. So, I took an opportunity to take a couple of astrophotos. Here is the Pleiades star cluster (Messier number 45) in Taurus. I used a Nikon D70 camera with a […]
Globular Clusters
Published on 10 Dec 2005 at 7:51 pm.
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Over at Tom’s Astronomy Blog he has a posting about an image that he took of the globular cluster M71. It is actually a very good image. One of my favorite globular clusters is M13, probably because it was the first one that I saw. Globular clusters are really very interesting objects. They are often […]
