Star cluster and a nebula
It was a wonderfully starry night here on Monday so I spent some time looking at the heavens and taking some images of Messier objects.
Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". The purpose of the catalogue was to help astronomical observers, in particular comet hunters such as himself, distinguish between permanent and transient objects in the sky.
The pictures here are of M13, which is a concentrated globular cluster of 300,000+ stars in the constellation of Hercules and M57, or the Ring Nebula, which is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Lyra.
Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". The purpose of the catalogue was to help astronomical observers, in particular comet hunters such as himself, distinguish between permanent and transient objects in the sky.
The pictures here are of M13, which is a concentrated globular cluster of 300,000+ stars in the constellation of Hercules and M57, or the Ring Nebula, which is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Lyra.
posted by David R at 2:18 pm
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