At 3000 light years distant, this was getting dangerously low over the La Nucía rooftops when I gave up at around 01:00. Discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1711 and included by Messier in his catalogue of 1772, evidently it describes a heart shape...
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open cluster m50 in monoceros 700d + pn208 18x120s @ ISO800 |