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  • Stargazing News - August 22nd, 2025

    From CJ@21:2/156 to All on Thu Aug 21 05:35:30 2025
    Friday August 22, 2025

    Milky Way Star Clusters (all night)

    The moon's absence from the evening sky this week will allow us to explore the countless knots and clumps of stars distributed along the Milky Way, many of which were included in Charles Messier's list of bright deep sky objects.
    Start by sweeping the southern sky with binoculars first, and then take closer looks at your discoveries through a backyard telescope at low magnification. Particularly good clusters include Messier 39 and the Cooling Tower Cluster (Messier 29) in Cygnus, the Wild Duck cluster (Messier 11) and Messier 26 in Scutum, the Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24), and Ptolemy's Cluster
    (Messier 7) and the Butterfly Cluster (Messier 6) in Scorpius.

    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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