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M Numbers And The Messier Catalogue
If you look at any astronomy books or star charts, you will quickly come across “M” numbers being used to identify objects in the sky. For example, the Andromeda Galaxy (which is our nearest-neighbour,...
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The most distant object you can see
The most distant object you can see with the naked eye is the Andromeda Galaxy — for most people, at least. This is about 2.5 million light years away and is visible during autumn and winter as a hazy...
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Help.. Black Hole Confirmed At Center Of OUR Galaxy. And It's BIG..
Simulation of a "small" black hole at the center of the Milky Way (credit: Wikimedia) It’s been suspected for some time.. The stuff of Einstein, the stuff of Science Fiction and the stuff of...
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Better Imaging Of Orion Nebula M42/43 With Canon 1000D
You may know by now, I have a new “toy”. It’s a Canon 1000D dslr camera (also known as a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS) and I got it as a Christmas present to myself! It produced a lovely astro image of...
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Image Processing My Orion Alnitak Flame Nebula Capture
I wrote yesterday about my remote imaging of the Orion Alnitak area. Well, Robin Scagell read it and noticed my image of the Flame nebula. I said in the post, the images were unprocessed – just...
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