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Re: Interesting Celestial Viewing in Western Sky
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 2, 19:21 -0500
GregR, you wrote:
"A little research turned up that it's the Beehive Cluster (AKA M44 or NGC
2632) - and sure enough, it really does look like a swarm of bees. Well worth
a look if you haven't seen it before - easily resolvable with binoculars (and
supposedly with the naked eye as well, but apparently not for my location),
and actually better viewed that way than with a telescope because of the
width of the cluster."
Ah, you need to go Milky Way browing later this summer! Now that you've seen
the Beehive, you'll be amazed at all the little clusters you can find with
an average pair of binoculars, mostly nestled along the Milky Way. There are
some real beauties through Scorpius and Sagittarius.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 2, 19:21 -0500
GregR, you wrote:
"A little research turned up that it's the Beehive Cluster (AKA M44 or NGC
2632) - and sure enough, it really does look like a swarm of bees. Well worth
a look if you haven't seen it before - easily resolvable with binoculars (and
supposedly with the naked eye as well, but apparently not for my location),
and actually better viewed that way than with a telescope because of the
width of the cluster."
Ah, you need to go Milky Way browing later this summer! Now that you've seen
the Beehive, you'll be amazed at all the little clusters you can find with
an average pair of binoculars, mostly nestled along the Milky Way. There are
some real beauties through Scorpius and Sagittarius.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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