The Cooling Tower, Open Cluster, Messier 29, NGC6913

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M 29, also known as NGC 6913, is an open cluster of star in the Cygnus constellation. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, and can be seen from Earth by using binoculars.

This cluster can be seen in binoculars. In telescopes, lowest powers are best. The brightest stars of Messier 29 form a "stubby dipper", as Mallas says it. The four brightest stars form a quadrilateral, and another three, a triangle north of them. It is often known as the "cooling tower" due to its resemblance to the hyperboloid-shaped structures. A few fainter stars are around them, but the cluster appears quite isolated, especially in smaller telescopes. In photographs, a large number of very faint Milky Way background stars shows up.

Messier 29 can be found quite easily as it is about 1.7 degrees south and little east of Gamma or 37 Cygni (Sadr). In the vicinity of Messier 29, there is some diffuse nebulosity which can be detected in photographs.

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Lunar Images By Neil Webster

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Venus and a Crescent Moon

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Conjunction between the Crescent Moon and Venus in the morning sky on 4th December 2018

Image by Honor Wheeler

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Conjunction of the Moon and Venus on 7am on 4th December 2018

Image by Kevin Langford

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Circumzenithal Arc’s

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46P Wirtanen

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Comet 46P Wirtanen was billed to be brighter than ever this apparition and when at its brightest it would be passing within 1 degree of M45, however the UK weather conspired against us, some members got images from outside the UK and others from before it reached its brightest, but our visit to Ashdown forest was cancelled due to 100% cloud cover and rain. 

On Thursday 13th December 2018 many members observed the comet at the Dick Chambers Observatory, through binoculars (a very faint fuzzy blob only visible with averted vision) and through the 16" Peter Hindle telescope.

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Comet Wirtanen, 46P taken 16 Dec. 2018 @ 0030 hrs., in Cottowood, Arizona, USA by Richard Bohner

Canon 6D, 200mm f2.8 lens, ISO 800

75 second exposure time.

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Image by Richard Bohner

Here is my latest image of Comet 46P.  Taken Thursday night.

Canon 6D, 200mm lens f2.8, ISO 800 60 second exposure.

It was a little windy Thursday night with gusts of 25mph and moon

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Image by Richard Bohner, tahen on 8th December 2018 in Cottonwood, Arizona 

Comet 46P Wirtanen on 8 Dec with Canon 6D with 200mm f2.8 lens, 60 second exposure.

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I've been getting some practice with deep sky stacker, not as scary as I thought here is my first attempt using it to stack some images of the comet.

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I've been lucky to have imaged the comet twice myself, once on Friday 7th & again on Sunday. The seeing has been pretty poor but it was just visible in 10x50 binoculars and looked pretty good in my 72mm refractor and 40mm eyepiece.

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Image by Kevin Langford

Taken on 11-12-2018 using a Canon 750D with a 75 to 300 zoom lens on a Sky Adventurer tracking mount.

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Astronomy Outreach with Sutton-at-Hone School

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We welcomed the Children of Sutton-at-Hone Primary school to the Dick Chambers Observatory on the 12th December 2018. They had a chance to look through the Peter Hindle telescope and from the photos it looks like they had a great time, whilst learning a bit about the science of Astronomy.

Parental permission given for all images used.

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Meteors Detected in November 2018

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The society observed 210 Meteors linked to 32 different showers in November using the semi-automated meteor camera

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2018-11MeteorCamer1Analysis

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