Tag: Snowglobe Cluster

Moon Leaves Evening to Dance with Morning Planets, Spotty Saturn, and We Take a Boo at Boötes!

This image of the Snowglobe Globular Star Cluster (aka NGC 5466) in Boötes simulates the view through a telescope at 132x. The area covered by the red circular viewport covers a bit more than the full moon’s size in the sky. On a dark night, the cluster can be seen as a faint fuzzy patch…
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The Old Moon Covers Jupiter Near Saturn in Morning and Moonless May Evenings Let us Peruse the Ploughman!

This gorgeous spiral galaxy named NGC 5248 and Caldwell 45 in Boötes is visible in medium-sized and larger telescopes on moonless evenings. Image by Adam Block of Mount Lemmon Observatory (Wikipedia) Hello, Moonless May Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of May 14th, 2023 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this…
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