NGC 7009 - Saturn Nebula (2022)
- Constellation: Aquarius
- Right Ascension: 21h 04m 10.877s
- Declination: −11° 21′ 48.25″
- Distance: 2,000 - 4,000 ly
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
- 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
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.
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- Category: Open Clusters
- 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
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.
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- Category: Globular Clusters
- 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
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.
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- Category: Nebulas
- 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
Spiral galaxy located in Virgo with a central bar.
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- Category: Galaxies
- 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
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
- Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
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