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Interesting Celestial Viewing in Western Sky
From: Greg R_
Date: 2006 Jun 2, 03:23 -0500
From: Greg R_
Date: 2006 Jun 2, 03:23 -0500
Slightly OT, but
at least related to celnav...
I took a look at Saturn through the binoculars the other night, and was startled to see that it was surrounded by what literally looked like an explosion of stars.
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.
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GregR
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I took a look at Saturn through the binoculars the other night, and was startled to see that it was surrounded by what literally looked like an explosion of stars.
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.
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GregR
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