[Chaos-l] M46 picture of the day

[E. Allen Davis]

And the rains came....pouring here now  .... allen 


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From: "Mark South" <md_south at mac.com> 
To: "E. Allen Davis" <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com> 
Cc: "Michael Hrivnak" <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org>, "chaos" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org> 
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 10:14:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
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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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