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Hipparcos was the first space mission devoted to precision astrometry, the accurate measurement of the positions and distances of celestial objects on the sky 🧪🔭

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M104 is a good target for capturing globular clusters around another galaxy. This is not one of my best galaxy images, but many of the faint dots in the halo are globular clusters. I captured this with a 5" refractor, time to revisit it! More info: bf-astro.com/m104/m104.htm #astrophotography