Friday, November 27, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Messier 82: The Cigar Galaxy on Thanksgiving 2020
Thanksgiving morning photo from my backyard observatory (Pleasant Hill, October 26, 2020). Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy or M82) is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. A member of the M81 Group, it is about five times more luminous than the whole Milky Way and has a center one hundred times more luminous than our galaxy's center.
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Messier 50: the Heart Shaped Cluster
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| Messier 50 Pleasant Hill, CA 11/7/20 |
Messier 50 (M50), nicknamed the Heart-Shaped Cluster, is a large, bright open cluster located in the constellation Monoceros. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 5.9 and lies at an approximate distance of 3,200 light years from Earth.
The Halloween Blue Moon 2020
It doesn’t happy very often... a blue moon on October 31st. It hasn’t happened since 1944 and won’t happen again until 2039. Great viewing conditions in the early morning hours of Halloween 2020.
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