NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices more luminous than the Andromeda Galaxy.
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NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way.
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NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way.
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The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 with its adjacent M32 and M110 galaxies (left and right), is a barred spiral galaxy.
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A star trail is a type of photograph that uses long exposure times to capture diurnal circles, the apparent motion of stars in the night sky due to Earth's rotation.
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Kejimkujik National Park is a national park of Canada, covering 404 km2 (156 sq mi) in the southwest of Nova Scotia peninsula.
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The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 with its adjacent M32 and M110 galaxies (left and right), is a barred spiral galaxy.
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The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51 with its adjacent NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.
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Messier 65 (also known as NGC 3623) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, within its highly equatorial southern half.
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Messier 65 (also known as NGC 3623) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, within its highly equatorial southern half.
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The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51 with its adjacent NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.
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The Moon, 2 days past First Quarter, 2021 May 22 Here is the result, cropped significantly as the moon was a small disk on the original images.
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M64 the Black Eye Galaxy (also called Sleeping Beauty Galaxy or Evil Eye Galaxy) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices.
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M64 the Black Eye Galaxy (also called Sleeping Beauty Galaxy or Evil Eye Galaxy) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices.
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The California Nebula (NGC 1499) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus.
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A portion of the Gamma Cygni Nebula IC 1318 shown here below Gamma Cygni - the bright star at the top.
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6 x 10 min images of Nova Cas 2021 March 22, 2021 before it crashed into my neighbour’s house (figuratively).
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A cropped image of M82, the Cigar Galaxy M82 was discovered, along with its neighbor M81, by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1774.
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Messier 81, also known as Bode's Galaxy, is a classic grand-design spiral galaxy in Ursa Major lying about 12 million light-years away, with a disk spanning roughly 90,000 light-years.
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The Jellyfish Nebula (catalogued as IC 433 and Sharpless 248) is a galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini, located near the star Eta Geminorum.
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The Jellyfish Nebula (catalogued as IC 433 and Sharpless 248) is a galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini, located near the star Eta Geminorum.
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NGC 2023, the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion.
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NGC 2023, the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion.
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The Pacman Nebula NGC 281 is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and is part of the Milky Way's Perseus Spiral Arm about 9200 ly away.
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A star trail is a type of photograph that uses long exposure times to capture diurnal circles, the apparent motion of stars in the night sky due to Earth's rotation.
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The NGC 7822 Wikipedia says "NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus.
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The NGC 7822 Wikipedia says "NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus.
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NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787.
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The Elephant Trunk Nebula IC 1386 is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away.
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The Ring Nebulae (NGC 6960) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra, formed when a shell of ionized gas is expelled into the surrounding interstellar medium by a star in the last stages of its evolution before becoming a white dwarf.
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The Western Veil Nebulae (NGC 6960) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
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The Western Veil Nebulae (NGC 6960) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
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The Western Veil Nebulae (NGC 6960) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
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Comet C/2020 F3 ( NEOWISE) from Backcountry Site 15 at Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site.
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C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.
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The Veil Nebula (IC6960) is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.
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The Heart Nebula, IC 1805 which lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Messier 3 (NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.
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Back to the past - this is the view 21 million years ago of the Pinwheel Galaxy M101 as seen from my backyard.
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Back to the past - this is the view 21 million years ago of the Pinwheel Galaxy M101 as seen from my backyard.
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In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft appear to be close to each other in the sky.
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SN 2020jfo was a Type II supernova in the Messier 61 galaxy, first observed on 6 May 2020 with an apparent magnitude of 16.01.
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In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft appear to be close to each other in the sky.
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The Heart Nebula, IC 1805 which lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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M10_2020-04-20 Messier 10 or M10 (also designated NGC 6254) is a globular cluster of stars in the equatorial constellation of Ophiuchus.
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"Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster.
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M13 Hercules Globular Cluster.M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and cataloged by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764 into his list of objects not to mistake for comets.Total image time was 1.25 hours.
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The 27.9% Waxing Crescent Moon taken at prime focus of a 10" Meade SCT with a .6 focal reducer on May 13, 2019 Exposure 121@ 1/250 sec.
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The Milky Way or Milky Way Galaxy, or simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed by stars in other arms of the galaxy, which are so far away that they cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
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Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a large, face-on “grand design” spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, cataloged as NGC 5457.
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The 97.2% Waxing Gibbous Moon taken at prime focus of a 10" Meade SCT with a .6 focal reducer on May 13, 2019 Exposure 100@ 1/320 sec.
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46P/Wirtanen is a small Jupiter-family comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years.
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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224) is the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, located about 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.
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M42 the Orion Nebula Exposure 30@ 30 sec sub frames ISO 1600 Camera Nikon D800 [7360 x 4912] Optics Prime focus of a 10" Meade SCT f/10, 2500 mm focal length on a Celestron CGEM DX mount with a F/6.3 Focal Reducer.
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Comet Giacobini–Zinner is a Jupiter-family comet with a 6.53-year orbit around the Sun.
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The Lagoon Nebula is a giant emission nebula with an H II region located in the constellation Sagittarius.
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A star trail is a type of photograph that uses long exposure times to capture diurnal circles, the apparent motion of stars in the night sky due to Earth's rotation.
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A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star, is a glowing streak of a small body going through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a streak of light via its rapid motion and sometimes also by shedding glowing material in its wake.
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The Milky Way or Milky Way Galaxy, or simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed by stars in other arms of the galaxy, which are so far away that they cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
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