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Blog 169 — Fiddling Around with NGC 772

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City The strangely sprung galaxy is known by several names: NGC…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City Amateur astronomers interested in photographing or viewing a subject that…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City An interesting group of galaxies in the constellation Draco shows…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City A dim nebular cloud and its associated star, known as…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City This is the first of a two-part series Consider an…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City This is the second of a two-part series In the…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City filed July 21, 2025 Last October I went trolling for…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City It took three months to reach this point, while Spring’s great…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City The constellation Andromeda’s most famous galaxy is the easiest of…

By Joe Bauman, Salt Lake City These nights the Helix Nebula is about as high as it…