As evening descends, he pulls up to various locations in a Subaru, his tailgate pointed toward infinity. He unloads 120 pounds worth of equipment: lenses, a tripod, and a telescope
Stargazer April 5 - 11, 2021
For this week’s Stargazer, HPR’s Dave Lawrence and Christopher Phillips talk about the historic next step for the latest NASA mission to Mars: the deployment of a flying drone on another planet!
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763 NGC 1808 is barred spiral galaxy located in the southern constellation of Columba. It was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop from Australia, who describe it as a faint nebula . It is a barred spiral with marked similarities to our home Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 1808 is distinguished by a peculiar nucleus, an unusually warped disk, and strange flows of hydrogen gas out from the central regions. Amidst all of this, because NGC 1808 is undergoing with intense star formation activity it has been deemed a starburst galaxy. NGC 1808 is relatively close to our Milky Way, and spans in about 35,000 light-years.
8 Orion Optics UK / QSI 583 WS / LRGB (130,90,90,90)