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My Movie List For July 4th

July 4, 2017 Posted in MoviesLeave a comment

Every year I hold a movie marathon on July 4th. Here are my picks.

Do the Right Thing Dr. Strangelove festivus July 4th Network the pentagon Wars

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The Andromeda Galaxy has many companions. NGC 185 here is one of them. This little fellow is a Seyfert dwarf galaxy, of interest to astronomers because of their similarities to quasars. NGC 185 is roughly 2 million light years from us. #astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy #universe #space #deepsky #celestron #nightcappro #shotoniphone

The open star cluster NGC 663 in Cassiopeia is shown here (center left). Because Cassiopeia lies within the galactic plane, objects photographed here come with nice rich starfields. (Not always a plus. Just ask those trying to capture the Hidden Galaxy.) NGC 663 is located in the neighboring Perseus Arm of our galaxy, roughly 6,800 light years from here. Though the starfield around NGC 663 is rich, it’d be even richer, and the cluster harder to spot, were it not for a large molecular cloud behind NGC 663, which blocks out many stars. Though the cluster is fairly young, several of its associated stars have reddened, indicating that they’re already near the end of their lives. #universe #space #astronomy #astrophotography #newgeneralcatalogue #deepsky #celestron #nightcapapp

Two looks at the Andromeda Galaxy and its near companions and an illustration of what light pollution does. The first photo was taken last night in Downtown Bellevue under skies as transparent as they come around here, stacked from 101 1-minute exposures. The only indication of Andromeda’s spiral arms are glimpses of its dust lanes just below center. The second I got last summer on Whidbey Island. Same setup and exposure length, with 89 stacked frames. What a difference a dark sky makes. #astronomy #astrophotography #andromedagalaxy #universe #space #lightpollution

Hanging around backstage during first dress for Inspecting Carol. #actor #backstage

I took a run at the Rosette Nebula a couple of nights ago. Unfortunately, clouds and dew prevented me from taking enough exposures to separate this dim nebula from the background properly, but the star cluster inside it, NGC 2244, is still pretty. The stars you’re seeing here are around 5 million years old. The brightest specimens are 50-60 times the mass of our sun and nearly half a million times as luminous. The cluster is about 5,000 light years from us. #astronomy #astrophotography #openstarcluster #deepsky #deepskyobject #universe #space #science #celestron #nightcappro

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