Australian Sky & Telescope - 04.2019

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W SOUTHERN

BEEHIVE

Carl Tanner

Also known as the

Diamond Cluster

and NGC 2516, the

Southern Beehive is a

pretty open star cluster

in Carina that’s easily

visible to the unaided

eye. For this shot, Carl

used the iTelescope

t68 Celestron 28-cm

RASA in Bathurst,

NSW, which was

fitted with a ZWO

ASI1600MC-C camera.

The exposure was

15x 60-second sub-

frames.

S LUNAR DAWN Glenn Krause
Glenn snapped this image of the Moon in the
brightening morning sky (the Sun had just risen). The
area shown includes the Sea of Tranquillity, the Sea of
Serenity and the Sea of Vapors... landing sites of four
of the Apollo missions. The shot was taken using a
Samsung Galaxy S9+ using the afocal method with a
Dobsonian-mounted 30-cm reflector.