Daily Archive: July 8, 2013

M 57

M 57, the “Ring Nebula”: a new color view

  After some time of stop, we took a new color image with our Celestron C14 robotic unit, to test the Baader Planetarium RGB filters we installed on the telescope, upgrading from the previous...

M 56

M 56 – Lyr

In the small constellation of Lyra, the one hosting the bright star Vega, there is the interesting and somewhat neglected globular cluster Messier 56. Apparently close to M 57, this little gem was discovered...