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Astronomy Magazine Picture of the Day November 6, 2009

Anacortes Telescope and Wild Bird Picture of the Day August 28, 2009

LDN 673 is a huge, massively dense cluster of absorption nebulae at the center of the Aquila rift (molecular cloud). Listed and named in Bevery T. Lynds Catalog of Dark Nebulae.

Here's nice annotated image of this area by Bernhard Hubl showing the various components of the nebulosity.

August 24, 2009