Local Group Archives - Roger Nelson Astronomy

Comet Neowise with NLC clouds in 2020

readmin July 20, 2022 Comets, Local Group, Northern Lights & Clouds, Projects

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. At that time, it was …

M31 Andromeda Galaxy

readmin June 28, 2022 Local Group, Log Book, Messier List, Projects

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 220,000 ly approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to …