"The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy."

— Steven Hawking

M1

M1

M1 early this morning at 2 AM. Photograph in visible light tricolor filter RGB from Verona NJ with an almost full moon.

30 minutes per filter, 5" f7 r efractor, starligh xpress ccd & true balance astrodon RGB filters.