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Images from a private observatory in central Florida.

Month: April 2020

M92
Frank's Astrophotos

Globular cluster M92

ByFrank Kane April 28, 2020December 16, 2020

Globular clusters are mysterious objects – they are dense clusters of stars, some containing hundreds of thousands of them. And they’re not within the plane of the Milky Way galaxy; they are scattered around it. How they formed is a bit of a mystery. Did they form with our galaxy, or are they the cores…

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Hickson 44 Galaxy Group
Frank's Astrophotos

The Hickson 44 Galaxy Group

ByFrank Kane April 3, 2020December 16, 2020

This is a weird little cluster of galaxies – there are four in all, and each one is completely different. There’s a weird, S-shaped one that must have been messed up by its neighbors in the past, a somewhat normal-looking spiral galaxy, and elliptical, and another one that’s viewed edge-on. Galaxies that have interacted with…

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M53
Frank's Astrophotos

Another glob.

ByFrank Kane April 3, 2020December 16, 2020

Here we have another globular cluster: M53. You don’t see this one imaged too often, but it’s still quite pretty. I’ve never met a globular cluster I didn’t like. It’s one of the more distant globular clusters in our galaxy, about 60,000 light-years away.

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Frank’s Gallery

Abell 1656 in Coma Berenices
Coma Berenices
The Black Eye Galaxy
Centaurus A
NGC5264 + friends
NGC660 polar ring galaxy
NGC 660
Pelican Nebula
Elephant’s Trunk
2019 Lunar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
Deer Lick Galaxy Group and Stephan's Quintet
Deer Lick Group
April ’24 Eclipse
PacMan Nebula
Pac-Man Nebula
Soul Nebula
Soul Nebula
Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard
Comet Leonard
The Leo Trio
Needle Galaxy
M92
The Moon
Flaming Star Nebula
Flaming Star Nebula
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
M20
Trifid Nebula
Bubble Nebula
Hoag's Object
Hoag’s Object
Mars and Uranus
Silver Sliver Galaxy
Mars
California Nebula
California Nebula
Rosette Nebula
Rosette Nebula
Omega Centauri
M53
M53
Melotte 15
Lagoon Nebula
Coalsack Nebula
M16
M16
Monkey Head Nebula
Monkey Head Nebula
Whale Galaxy
Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
Sombrero Galaxy
Dolphin Head Nebula
The Hidden Galaxy
Horsehead and Flame
Abell 33
Diamond Ring Nebula
Whirpool Galaxy
Sunflower Galaxy
Sunflower Galaxy
NGC206
NGC206
Medusa Nebula
Medusa Nebula
M13
M5
Northern Trifid
M61 with supernova
M61 / Supernova
M14
M14
Veil Nebula
Veil Nebula
Sculptor Galaxy (NGC253)
Sculptor Galaxy
M100 with SN2019ehk
M100
The Sun
NGC2903
Whale & Hockey Stick
M80
Thor's Helmet
Thor’s Helmet
Helix Nebula
Helix Nebula
NGC2336
NGC2336
vdB93
Saturn
SH2-9
SH2-9
Baby Nebula (Soul Nebula) - Portion
Baby Nebula
Horsehead Nebula
Horsehead Nebula
Witch’s Broom
Butterfly Galaxies
Orion Nebula
Orion Nebula
Bode's Galaxy
Bode’s Galaxy
M16, starless
M3
M106
NGC1333
Hickson 44 Galaxy Group
Hickson 44
Cocoon Nebula
Pinwheel Galaxy
NGC 3718
NGC 3718
Abell 39
Abell 39
M74
M74
Cave Nebula
Cave Nebula
NGC5033
NGC5033,NGC5005
M33
Triangulum Galaxy
Cone & Fox Fur
Crescent Nebula
NGC3344
M15
M15
Spider Nebula
Spider Nebula
M17
Wizard Nebula
Wizard Nebula
NGC2403
NGC2403
M81 and M82
Bode’s Galaxies
Antennae Galaxies
Dumbbell Nebula
Markarian's Chain of Galaxies
Markarian’s Chain
Cygnus Wall
Cygnus Wall
Jellyfish Nebula
Tulip Nebula
Ghost of Cassiopeia
M66
NGC2841
M88
M94
Iris Nebula
Jupiter

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