As backyard observers may know, some modest telescopes lack the optics or aperture to cleanly resolve deep-sky objects like nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. This leads to fuzzy images, often ...
ESO: The nebula Messier 78 takes center stage in this image taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, while the stars powering the ...
Wonderfully mysterious, M78 is the brightest swath of nebulosity in a group of specterlike glows some 2½° northeast of Alnitak (Zeta [ζ] Orionis), the eastern star in Orion’s Belt. Pierre Méchain ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - “When I was a kid, my cousin showed me Saturn from a telescope when I was young and that got me hooked.” Tom Weber, the President of the Cedar Amateur Astronomers recalled.