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Melotte 111 Coma Bernices Cluster, Gary Seven
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Melotte 111 Coma Bernices Cluster

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Melotte 111 Coma Bernices Cluster

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Perhaps this one should be titled "What can you do with less than 50 minutes?"

That was the scenario a few nights ago when IC410 went below my shooting horizon around 5 am. I hate to let dark minutes go to waste, and astronomical dawn was about 5:50 am.

The scope was the 250mm RedCat 51 and in the spring sky that was presenting itself it was mostly galaxies. Then I thought of Bernices Hair and thought it just could work. So I adjusted the framing a bit to get a cameo appearance of NGC 4565 (aka the Needle Galaxy).

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