[Chaos-l] M46 picture of the day

[E. Allen Davis]

I remember seeing this years ago when I first started observing through a telescope.  Everytimes I set up when this is in the sky I always have to turn the scope to it. 



The NASA pic renders the same impression that I experience when looking at this in the eyepiece.  



I guess we will be looking at pics of stars this weekend unless Sunday night comes through. 



allen 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hrivnak" <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org> 
To: "chaos" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:51:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [Chaos-l] M46 picture of the day 



http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090326.html 



Many of us have been enjoying the view of M46 for the past couple of months. NASA made it today's "Astronomy Picture of the Day." It is one of my favorite objects because of how dense the star cluster is, and how spooky the planetary nebula looks in front of it. This particular picture is really well done. It's amazing how high the quality is, especially at full resolution. 



Michael 
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