The space of night is infinite,
The blackness and emptiness
Crossed only by thin bright fences
Of logic

— Kenneth Rexroth
"Theory of Numbers"

cluster

Rosette Nebula

By marzulloj at Sat, 01/30/2010 - 11:28am
Rosette Nebula

Rosette Nebula AKA NGC numbers: 2237, 2238, 2239, and 2246. Within the nebula, open star cluster NGC 2244

NGC2237 & NGC2244

By marzulloj at Sat, 01/30/2010 - 11:25am
NGC2237 & NGC2244

Two hour exposure h-alpha filter

M13

By ebfaulkner6a at Sat, 06/27/2009 - 6:14am
M13

Taken with newly purchased Astro-tech 6" Ritchey Cretien Thursdy 25th June.
Messier described it as "a nebula which I am sure contains no star". Sir William Herschel used his great reflector and disclosed its true nature as "a most beautiful cluster of stars exceedingly compressed in the middle and very rich".