Observe the brightest deep-sky objects

You know, after decades of pointing optics toward the sky, I consider myself a knowledgeable observer. But while researching the Pleiades a few months back, I was surprised to learn that it wasn’t the brightest star cluster. And there were other surprises when I started comparing overall brightnesses of deep-sky objects. For instance, you mightContinue reading “Observe the brightest deep-sky objects”
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