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  • Stargazing News - August 18th, 2025

    From CJ@21:2/156 to All on Sunday, August 17, 2025 07:22:55
    Monday August 18, 2025

    Bright Clusters for Binoculars (evening)

    The evenings surrounding Monday, August 18 will be a fine time to grab your binoculars and view three large open star clusters that occupy the
    southwestern sky between the bright stars Altair and Cebalrai. The Summer Beehive Cluster aka IC 4665 is a loose collection of stars centered just a finger's width above (or 1 degree northeast of) Cebalrai. Watch for several reddish stars among its majority white population, which is spread across an area more than twice the diameter of the moon. Next, aim your binoculars
    midway between Cebalrai and Altair and look for two patches of stars sharing the same binoculars field of view. The smaller, but brighter Tweedledum
    Cluster (or NGC 6633) is centered several finger widths to the upper right (or celestial northwest) of the larger, but fainter Graff's Cluster (or IC 4756). It's fun to count each cluster's stars and note the various star colors and
    the patterns that the stars are arranged in.

    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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