Category Archives: Deep Space Objects

NGC6883 and NGC6871 open clusters in Cygnus

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Greg Parker

This pair of open clusters has a Milky Way backdrop and they are surrounded by faint emission nebulosity.  They can be found in the constellation Cygnus lying just underneath the Crescent nebula region.  Image taken 19th August 2009 using the … Continue reading →

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A galaxy group in Bootes

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Greg Parker

I have no idea why I took this image of a galaxy group in Bootes on January 29th 2011.  I also have no record of it in the logbook.  I ran an astrometry check on it to find where it … Continue reading →

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The Brightest Known Object in Our Universe

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Greg Parker

According to the Guiness Book of Records this Quasar in the constellation Lynx is the brightest known object in our universe and who are we to argue with them [oops – see the Postscript below]!

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