Month: November 2009

M13 is a favorite subject for many observers, myself included.  I’ve looked at it from the backyard with my own eyeball.  I’ve seen it through my 8×50 binoculars.  I’ve looked at it in a Dobsonian with a photomultiplier.   This globular cluster contains over 100,000 stars that are all held in this fuzzy ball by the …

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My mission is to get people in urban areas to think about what’s in the sky above them. Just because you’re in the city doesn’t mean the stars don’t exist or that you can’t see or understand really cool celestial events.