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M2 (Globular Cluster)
Published on 10 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 10th October 2010
At 21:30 / 9.30pm, with binoculars to find a Messier 2 (M2)Globular Cluster.
M2 – far from the plane of Milky Way in a region of sky with no bright stars. M2 contains about 100,000 stars and 13 billions years old. M2 is the showpiece objects in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water [...]
Constellation :- Capricornus (The Sea Goat)
Published on 4 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 4th October 2010
Messier 30 (M30) Globular Cluster
The smallest constellation of the zodiac, lying between Sagittarius (The Archer) and Aquarius (The Water Carrier) that depicts a fish-tailed goat is called `The Sea Goat` or `The Horned Goat`. It has the important cluster is M30, a Globular Cluster of magnitude 7.5
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Open Cluster Remarkable – NGC752
Published on 25 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 25th September 2010
NGC 752 (Open Cluster) in Andromeda
While looking for Comet Hartley over the next few weeks, remember there are many fine deep-sky sights worth exploring in this part of the sky, including the Double Cluster, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy (the farthest thing you can see with your unaided eye). Amidst this splendor [...]
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Sky Camp @ North Norfolk
Published on 11 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 11th September 2010
Great to be back for tonight that my eyes were adjusted to the darkness particularly that I can see fiant objects through my telescope – Meade Lightbridge (16 inch).
Under good seeing the Jovian Storm known as the Great Red Spot is also visible tonight.
The constellation of Orion (The Hunter) returns in the [...]
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Sky Camp @ North Norfolk
Published on 10 Sep 2010 at 08:20.
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Friday 10th September 2010
Last night it was an ever-better condition skies that I was observed some showpieces – Deep Sky Objects in the constellation of Perseus (The Hero).
Perseus lies in the Milky Way, therefore is rich typical Milky Way objects as Open Clusters and Diffuse Nebulae.
Justifiably famous Perseus Double Cluster (NGC869 & NGC884) – one [...]
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Sky Camp @ North Norfolk
Published on 9 Sep 2010 at 10:37.
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Thursday 9th September 2010
Last night I used my telescope under some of the darkest skies to show our friends who wanted to look at Jupiter with it’s South Equatorial Belt (SEB) clearly missing.
However SEB, it’s disappearance is only temporary and sooner or later – sooner, more probably than later – it will be back that [...]
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Sky Camp @ North Norfolk
Published on 8 Sep 2010 at 10:18.
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Wednesday 8th September 2010
Some of our deaf members (British Deaf Astronomical Association) will arrive here later today – I am sure we will catch up with lots of talk about what we have observed during the summertime.
Anyway last night till this morning 3am stayed up to observe some Open & Globular Clusters. Also looked at [...]
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The Wild Duck Cluster (Messier 11)
Published on 27 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 27th July 2010 @ 23:00 / 11pm
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Messier 11 – The Wild Duck Cluster (M11)
It is an Open Cluster, readily seen with binoculars and is a magnificent object with high magnifications by a small telescope that possible to see the V-Shape.
M11 is one of the richest and most compact of the [...]
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Deep Sky Objects :- Messier 10 & Messier 12
Published on 9 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 9th July 2010 @ 23:00 / 11pm
Messier 10 (top) and Messier 12 (above)
Two Globular Clusters about three degrees apart, both are visible through binoculars – appearing about half the size of the Full Moon, although a telescope is needed to resolve individual stars.
M10 is the closer cluster to our Earth at 14,000 light-years, [...]
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Messier 5
Published on 4 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 4th July 2010
Messier 5
The Deep Sky Objects of Messier 5 is one of the finest Globular Clusters in the southern parts of the constellation – Serpens Caput (The Serpent) is visible through binoculars.
It is easy to see, but finding it can be much harder task, because there are not a lot of bright stars [...]
