Author: Luca Zanini
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Aristarchus
Aristarchus is a crater with a diameter of 40 km and is one of the brightest areas on the Moon.Close to it there are the Herodotus crater from which the deep rhyme Vallis Schroteri starts and the ghost crater Prinz.
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The Rosetta Nebula
The Rosetta Nebula, C 49 or NGC 2237, is a diffuse nebula in Monoceros constellation.
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The Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula, or IC 434, is a dark nebula in Orion constellation near the star Alnitak.
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The Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula, or M 42 or NGC 1976, is a bright diffuse nebula just below the Orion belt at a distance of about 1300 years from us.
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The rotation of Jupiter
In this sequence of 4 frames of Jupiter on the night of 9-10 August 2021 in a time span of about 30 minutes it is possible to see the rotation of the planet.The north pole is at the bottom left.