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Now, the more obscure things...

Coma Galaxy cluster. We put a wide field prime focus camera on the 24 inch telescope which gave us a 1 degree field of view, so I could do big fields like this.


Virsgo Galaxy Cluster


Cassiopeia A supernova remnant (we were searching for the progenitor neutron star)


FY Aquila (Variable star, was thought at one time to be the progenitor star for a famous gamma ray burst in 1979). Turned out to be a Mira type star (it has a small localized nebula around it)


Abell 39, a very faint planetary nebula, one of the most perfect spheres ever seen in space:


Wolf-Rayet 124
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