Category: ophiuchus

Ophiuchus (serpent bearer) is a zodiac constellation that best visible in the evening summer sky

Collinder 350

Collinder 350 is a fairly unimpressive looking open cluster in Ophiuchus. There isn’t a lot to say about it. It’s part of a catalog of open clusters published by Swedish astronomer Per Collinder in 1931. I chose it because it made a good filter target during the early part of the night when the moon…

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Messier 10

There are a lot of globular clusters out there and this one looks a lot like the typical globular. But, they make good “filler” targets because they don’t need much total time and they are still interesting. In this case, I was spending most of the night on Sharpless 112 but it didn’t get high…

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