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Patrick Prokop
Savannah, GA, USA

12/03/2021
05:30 am

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Orion EON 130mm Refractor Telescope

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Comet Leonard and the Globular Cluster M3
This is a composite of 30 x 2-minute exposures.
Here you can see comet Leonard passing the beautiful cluster that contains a bit more than 500,000 stars and is about 33,900 light-years away. The age of the majority of stars is roughly 8 billion years old, as compared to 4.6 billion years of our sun. The comet is only about 40,000 miles from earth and is moving at a velocity of around 37.6 miles/sec or 99,500 mph
I took this image between 5-6 AM, Friday, Dec 3 using the Orion EON 130mm Refractor telescope.

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David Callejas, Marketing Director, helps bring EarthSky's content to the world via online ads and other products. He creates strategies that help people around the world find us and appreciate the work we do. He helps manage the EarthSky Store and bring to you the new products that you love. He's the chief liaison between EarthSky.org and the world of commerce. All that, plus he helps post content and populate our pages on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Go David!