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1 posted on 04/27/2016 4:48:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

During my amateur astronomy days I used to spend most of my time viewing nebulas and planets. Then one day I focused my Meade on a globular star cluster. It was like looking into a bowl of diamonds.


5 posted on 04/27/2016 5:27:18 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hugh and series glob of stars.


8 posted on 04/27/2016 6:24:38 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Actually, it has been decided that it’s actually a core of a dwarf galaxy, not a globular at all.

I regularly can catch Omega Cent from Savannah. It just clears the horizon for a few hours in the Spring. Through a scope, it’s a marvelous sight. In Binoculars, it has a red tinge from atmospheric effects.

Further south, it is beyond description.


9 posted on 04/27/2016 8:11:27 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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