The Sky Today on Tuesday, June 17: View a nearby globular cluster

Night owls looking southeast late this evening should easily be able to find the Teapot of Sagittarius, a large asterism that lies close to the plane of the Milky Way. The top of the Teapot’s lid is marked by magnitude 2.8 Lambda (λ) Sagittarii, and just 2.5° northeast of this star is tonight’s target: globularContinue reading “The Sky Today on Tuesday, June 17: View a nearby globular cluster”
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