Alarm a llama!

Saturn at oppositions tonight.
This was from 4 years ago.

Is that when we took the night pictures?

Happy Valentine’s Day. This heart is already in the Sky next to the soul nebula in Cassiopeia, about 4 degrees from the Double Cluster. IC 1805 lies some 7500 light years away, in the Perseus arm of the Galaxy. The loose open cluster Melotte 15 lies at the center of IC 1805. The nebula's gorgeous red color is driven by the radiation emanating Melotte 15. Only 1.5 million years old, this cluster contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the Sun's mass, and many more containing only a fraction of a solar mass. It needs to be photographed to see the red hydrogen gasses glowing, but just 60” on a 4” refractor, single shot using Nikon D810a.

Happy Valentine’s Day.

This heart is already in the Sky next to the soul nebula in Cassiopeia.
IC 1805 lies some 7500 light years away. Only 1.5 million years old, this cluster contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the Sun's mass, 60” on a 4” refractor, single shot using Nikon D810a.

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A mind blowing patch of sky around Taurus. Jupiter and Uranus (right of Pleiades) just visiting. Recent star birth clusters of Hyades and Pleiades the latter still has remnant nebula. The odd galaxy at 240 million ly. And star death with the crab nebular.

More damp here in Wiltshire.