| What our guests see through our telescope |
| M6 is an open cluster in Scorpius. It is also called the Butterfly Cluster. Can you find a butter fly there? Best viewed from winter to spring |
| Albireo is a double star in Cygnus. It is known for its beautiful colour contrast. Best viewed from winter to spring |
| M57, a planetary nebula in Lyre, the final stage of the life of a sun-like star Best viewed from spring to summer |
| The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our satellite galaxies 160,000 light-years away Best viewed in summer |
All the images were made by our 46cm telescope. They are all short-exposure (60-100 seconds) colour photographs to give you some
idea what you can actually see through our telescope during the night sky tour. However, you will not see the colours on most objects as
these photographs show, as the human eye cannot perceive colour on faint objects. Bright stars and bright nebulae are exceptions.
If you would like to see spectacular long-exposure images of these objects, use a search engine like Google. Click on "images" , not
"web", and type in the name of the object you want to see in the search box. You will see hundreds of images of the object, taken by major
observatories and amateur astrophotographers around the world.
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idea what you can actually see through our telescope during the night sky tour. However, you will not see the colours on most objects as
these photographs show, as the human eye cannot perceive colour on faint objects. Bright stars and bright nebulae are exceptions.
If you would like to see spectacular long-exposure images of these objects, use a search engine like Google. Click on "images" , not
"web", and type in the name of the object you want to see in the search box. You will see hundreds of images of the object, taken by major
observatories and amateur astrophotographers around the world.
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