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Tag: Star

Moon and ExoMoons.

Exciting discovery!

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Planet Or Star?

The Universe And All That.
Is the Moon a Planet or a Star?

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Globular Cluster NGC 6752

Object Details: Designations:  NGC 6752, Caldwell 93.    Constellation: Pavo. Visual magnitude:   +5.4                      … More

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Telescopic Star Trails

The motion of the stars in Carina, as viewed through my telescope. Note the different star colours and the ghostly … More

Carina, Skywatcher ed120, Star, trails

The Butterfly Cluster

An open cluster (also known as Messier 6) in Scorpius which is estimated to be  just 50-100 million years old. The bright star … More

BM Scorpii, Butterfly Cluster, M6, Messier 6, NGC 6405, open cluster, orange supergiant, Scorpius, Star

Albireo

Albireo – a colourful variable double star system in Cygnus. It’s naked eye appearance is of a magnitude 3.0 single star but … More

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Milky Way

Above – Milky Way in Carina, Crux, Circinus and Centaurus. A region which is rich with stars and interesting objects. Top … More

Alpha Centauri, antares, Ara, Beta Centauri, Carina, Centaurus, Coalsack, Crux, Hadar, Milky Way, Nebula, Norma Lupus, Pointers, Rigil Kentaurus, Scorpius, Southern Cross, Star, Supergiant, Wide Field

Comet C2015/V2 (Johnson)

2017-05-25: Comet C2015/V2 (Johnson) – the fuzzy object lower right of centre – rising through the light pollution of Campbelltown … More

60D, Bootes, canon, Comet, Comet C2015/V2 (Johnson), EOS, izar, Macarthur Astronomical Society, Star, The Oaks

Tarantula Nebula

NGC 2070, the Tarantula Nebula, part of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation of Dorado. The distance from Earth … More

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Milky Way Star Fields

All images © R.Powell  

Centaurus A, Crux Centaurus, Galaxy, Globular Cluster, Mars, Milky Way, Omega Centauri, planet, Pointers, Sagittarius, Saturn Antares, Star

Sundry Images

All images © R.Powell  

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2011 – Deep Sky

Star clusters M45 (Pleiades) in Taurus, M37 in Auriga and the Jewel Box NGC4555 in Crux. Emission Nebula in Eta … More

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2011 – Orion

The Orion Nebula, Messier 42, is a bright emission nebula, visible to the naked eye above Orion’s Belt, here in … More

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2011 – Solar System

This year I imaged the Sun and the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus: All images © R.Powell  

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