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M71, Garrett D'Amore
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Last night, I briefly pointed at this target, and was quite stunned when the plate solver said it it resolved something over two thousand stars.

This picture occupies roughly the same field of view as the full moon.  This is what 2000 stars looks like in that space.  Mind blowing.

(Sure, galaxies have billions, or even near a trillion, stars, but you really can't resolve them individually like you can in this photo.)

Any way, I allocated a mere 30 minutes of the night to collect this data.

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M71, Garrett D'Amore