Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Aquarius (Aqr)  ·  Contains:  M 73  ·  NGC 6994
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M73, Kurt Zeppetello
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M73 is an asterism (group of stars that appear close to each other from earth) in the constellation Aquarius and located located 2,500 light-years from Earth. Messier described the object as a cluster of four stars with some nebulosity, however, no one since then has observed it (source: wikipedia). Of course I would have liked to have longer exposure but I was entertaining an out of town guest (brother) during the session.

The object represents 40 on the Messier Objects with an ED80 project that I am working on.

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