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  • NGC 7009 - Saturn Nebula (2022)
  • NGC 6871 (2022)
  • Messier 30 (2022)
  • NGC 6857 (2022)
  • NGC 5068 (2022)
  • V354 Cephei (2022)
  • NGC 6934 (2022)

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NGC 7009 - Saturn Nebula (2022)

Constellation: Aquarius
Right Ascension: 21h 04m 10.877s
Declination: −11° 21′ 48.25″
Distance: 2,000 - 4,000 ly
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NGC 7009 is a planetary nebula located in Aquarius. Of course the name comes from its resemblance to the planet Saturn. The way a planetary nebula forms of course is way different. A low mass star loses its outer layers during it's red giant phase before shrinking down in to a white dwarf. The nebula is glows from the ionization from the now white dwarf.

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Category: Nebulas
Published: 07 December 2022
  • Planetary Nebula
Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM

NGC 6871 (2022)

Constellation: Cygnus
Right Ascension: 20h 05m 59s
Declination: +35° 46.6′
Distance: 5133 ly
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NGC 6871 is a small young cluster located in Cygnus. Easily lost against the dense star fields of Cygnus. The cluster contains less that 50 members, but has several eclipsing binary stars, one being V 453 Cyg. Several dark nebula are also visible in the image.

Details
Category: Open Clusters
Published: 06 December 2022
  • Open Cluster

Read more: NGC 6871 (2022)

Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM

Messier 30 (2022)

Constellation: Capricornus
Right Ascension: 21h 40m 22.12s
Declination: –23° 10′ 47.5″
Distance: 27,000 ly
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Messier 30 is a globular cluster located in the constellation of Capricornus. Due to its retrograde motion in respect to the general flow of the Milky Way galaxy, it is thought to be c captured cluster from another satellite galaxy. Having under gone core collapse, its central section is dense with stars. A class V globular cluster.

The bright star is Zeta Capricorni.

Details
Category: Globular Clusters
Published: 05 December 2022
  • Globular Cluster
Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM

NGC 6857 (2022)

Constellation: Cygnus
Right Ascension: 20h 01m 48.1s
Declination: +33° 31' 33"
Distance: 28,000 ly
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NGC 6857 was originally categorized as a planetary nebula, but its actually just a denser part of a larger HII region called Sharpless 2-100.

Details
Category: Nebulas
Published: 02 December 2022
  • Nebula
Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM

NGC 5068 (2022)

Constellation: Virgo
Right Ascension: 13h 18m 54.8s
Declination: −21° 02′ 21″
Distance: 22 million ly
Galaxy Type: SB(s)d
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Spiral galaxy located in Virgo with a central bar.

Details
Category: Galaxies
Published: 01 December 2022
  • Galaxy
Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM

NGC 6934 (2022)

Constellation: Delphinus
Right Ascension: 20h 34m 11.37s
Declination: +07° 24′ 16.1″
Distance: 51,000 ly
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NGC 6934 is a distant globular cluster located in the constellation of Delphinus. It has a Shapely-Sawyer concentration class rank of VIII (8). Eighty-five variables have been discovered in the globular with most of them being of RR Lyrae type.

Some of the variables located in and around NGC 6934.

Details
Category: Globular Clusters
Published: 18 October 2022
  • Globular Cluster
  • Variable Star
Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
  1. NGC 1169 (2022)
  2. NGC 660 (2022)
  3. NGC 7479 (2022)
  4. Messier 8 - Lagoon Nebula (2022)

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