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

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