[Chaos-l] M46 picture of the day

[Mark South]

yes one of my favorite objects!
mark

On Mar 27, 2009, at 10:12 AM, E. Allen Davis wrote:

> 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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