Photonica — The Picastro blog

Thomas McCrorie

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I imaged a cosmic wizard in space! NGC 7380!

NGC 7380 is a relatively young open cluster of stars in the constellation of Cepheus, discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. The...

Thomas McCrorie

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I imaged this huge emission nebula, the Rosette nebula or NGC 2244 - a skull in space that sits around 5200 light years away but still...

Thomas McCrorie

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I imaged this huge galaxy 2.3 million light years away from our milkwyay using my dedicated astronomy camera, my HEQ5Pro equatorial mount...