Messier Marathon Part 4 (Globular clusters and open clusters to sunrise)
First, while waiting for these objects to rise, I snapped the following shot of Saturn:
By this point of the evening, most of the people had packed it up. Only four of us remained by about 3 AM. At this point, we start hitting the globular clusters. First is M5:
I got the shot of M13 with my autoguider:
Then M92, another bright glob in Hercules:
M107 in Ophiuchus:
M12 in Ophiuchus:
M10 in Ophiuchus:
And M14 in Ophiuchus:
A quick break from the globs to get M57, the Ring Nebula:
And back to the globs with M56 in Lyra:
M9 in Ophiuchus:
M4 in Scorpius:
M80 in Scorpius:
Next two open clusters in Cygnus. M29, called the Stubby Dipper:
And M39:
M71 is another glob in Sagitta:
Then M27, the Dumbbell Nebula:
M19 in Ophiuchus:
And M62 in Ophiuchus:
The quality of these shots gets significantly worse as we get closer to the horizon and sunrise. I got M11, the Wild Duck Cluster:
And M26, and open cluster in Scutum:
Next is the early morning objects.
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