Starship Asterisk*

M45, the daughters of Atlas & Pleione – with Barnard’s Merope Nebula IC 349. M45 Pleiades + IC349 with inserts.jpg [url=https://flic.kr/p/2q9hbYa][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53914945633_c9282a436b_k.jpg[/img] M45 Pleiades + IC349 with inserts by Martina McGovern , on Flickr[/url] M4...

M31 – Andromeda galaxy as imaged by an amateur. I think it is incredible how far our knowledge of the universe has progressed in under 100 years. For example, it was only 99 years ago that we (American astronomer Edwin Hubble) discovered/proved that our Milky Way was not the boundary to the universe...

Cities of stars and a few galaxies - M53 & NGC5053 I love Globular Clusters, I have heard them described as “Ancient stellar cities” - I think that’s a brilliant way to think of them. Open and globular clusters are not given enough ‘Press’ in my opinion – I plan to image more of them, weather pe...