47 Tucanae, Nick Roach

47 Tucanae

47 Tucanae, Nick Roach

47 Tucanae

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A half moon was up, so trying nebulae and galaxies would be a waste of time. The seeing was great though, so why not try the nice bright globular cluster 47 Tucanae? It's 16 kly away, in the galactic halo, poised above the plane of the galaxy. What a view there must be from there! In the words of Carl Sagan, "a still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise, a morning filled with 400 billion suns, the rising of the Milky Way". These stars have been burning since the dawn of time, only 800 million years or so after the big bang; only low mass yellow stars in here!

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47 Tucanae, Nick Roach