Stargazers, bittersweet news — our 2026 Messier Marathon at Westport Observatory is cancelled. Today's the first day of spring, and spring showed up RIGHT on cue with clouds and rain to shut us down! We were ready to chase all 110 Messier objects, but Mother Nature had other plans. Clear skies ahead! https://was-ct.org/

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Want to try to do a #messierMarathon in 2024 (weather permitting). I was surprised as to how many objects on the list I haven’t seen despite being a deep sky observer for decades.

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Our friend @mmkelly puts together a stargazing side quest every week for #WUFO, where they teach us how to find celestial objects. This week's is up and it's a doozy! You owe it to yourself to go outside tonight and find as many #Messier objects as you can for the #messiermarathon

What's a Messier object, you may ask? Visit wufo.watch and find out!

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https://www.wufo.watch/2023/03/22/stargazing-side-quest-week-62-messier-marathon/

Stargazing Side Quest Week #62: MESSIER MARATHON - WUFO WATCH

Happy Spring! Happy New Moon! And Happy Wednesday! To kick off the astrological new year we're going to be doing the biggest Stargazing Side Quest yet - A Messier Marathon! Tonight you'll have stargazing opportunities the whole night to find 11 different celestial objects instead of just one at our usual time of 10pm! Messier

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To close out Hubble's 2023 #MessierMarathon, here's a new image of M19!

M19 is a star cluster with a slightly elongated shape. It's relatively close to the heart of our Milky Way, so the gravity from the galactic center could be stretching it: https://go.nasa.gov/40mqDld
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Messier 19

M19 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. The cluster is located 28,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus and is most easily observed during July.

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The final new Hubble Messier image is Messier 19 (M19). The Hubble proposal associated with this image sought to investigate M19’s formation and the ratios of different populations of stars within the cluster. The image includes Hubble observations taken in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths of light.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-19

Visit Hubble's Messier Catalog to see more Hubble images of these objects.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-messier-catalog

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Messier 19

M19 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. The cluster is located 28,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus and is most easily observed during July.

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The Messier Catalog is a resource that includes many astronomical sights from the northern hemisphere. We’re sharing new Hubble images of Messier objects so you can “stargaze” from your screen.

Join us for a mini #MessierMarathon, no matter where you are! https://go.nasa.gov/42k0GVr
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Explore - The Night Sky | Hubble’s Messier Catalog

Some galaxies, nebulas and star clusters are visible with backyard telescopes, binoculars or the unaided eye. Explore a new Hubble gallery of such objects from the popular Messier catalog and learn how you can view these objects yourself!

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Today's new Hubble Messier image is the open star cluster, Messier 7 (M7) some 1,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Scorpius. Second-century polymath, Claudius Ptolemy, first recorded M7 in 130 AD, earning it the nickname Ptolemy's Cluster.

Follow along as Hubble releases a new Messier image each day through Tuesday, March 21.

Hubble's Messier Catalog:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-messier-catalog

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Explore - The Night Sky | Hubble’s Messier Catalog

Some galaxies, nebulas and star clusters are visible with backyard telescopes, binoculars or the unaided eye. Explore a new Hubble gallery of such objects from the popular Messier catalog and learn how you can view these objects yourself!

NASA

The Messier Catalog is a resource that includes many astronomical sights from the northern hemisphere. We’re sharing new Hubble images of Messier objects so you can “stargaze” from your screen.

Join us for a mini #MessierMarathon, no matter where you are!
https://go.nasa.gov/3LF6e6K
#Hubble

Explore - The Night Sky | Hubble’s Messier Catalog

Some galaxies, nebulas and star clusters are visible with backyard telescopes, binoculars or the unaided eye. Explore a new Hubble gallery of such objects from the popular Messier catalog and learn how you can view these objects yourself!

NASA

Today's new Hubble Messier image is Messier 14 (M14). Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, the globular cluster M14 is home to over 150,000 stars and is some 29,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-14

Follow along as Hubble releases a new Messier image each day through Tuesday, March 21.

Hubble's Messier Catalog:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-messier-catalog

#NASA #Hubble #MessierMarathon #astronomy #stargazing #Astrodon #universe #space #sciencemastodon #science #stars

Messier 14

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, the globular cluster M14 is home to over 150,000 stars and has an apparent magnitude of 8.3.

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Just in time for the 2023 #MessierMarathon, Hubble has a new view of M80 to share.

M80 is one of the densest globular clusters in the Milky Way. It's about 28,000 light-years away from Earth and contains hundreds of thousands of stars: https://go.nasa.gov/3JNPpp1
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Messier 80

This stellar swarm is M80, one of the densest of the approximately 150 known globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy.

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