Sonoran Dark Skies
Images of the Night Sky taken from the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona
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Star clusters come in two catagories - Open and Globular. Open clusters are loose associations of a relative small number of stars and are usually located within the neighborhood of the plane of our galaxy. Globular clusters surround our galaxy in a cloud outside of the plane where most stars reside. They are much tighter associations of stars and much further away.
Pleiades, M45
Star Clusters
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Hercules Globular Cluster, M13
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M5
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M12
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Pleiades, M45
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M80
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