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First Light on New CCD Camera (March 2012) The image of the galaxy M81 above is the 鈥渇irst-light鈥� image taken by the new U42 CCD camera at the UIS鈥�

Nearby Galaxy M33 This is a composite image of the galaxy M33 in the constellation Triangulum.  It is a collection of 40 billion stars about 3 million鈥�

Perseid Meteor Star Party August 11/12 The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield Astronomy-Physics Program is co-hosting a viewing of the Perseid Meteor鈥�

Supernova 2013df in NGC 4414 The spiral galaxy to the left of center in this picture is聽NGC 4414. 聽It is about 62 million lightyears away from Earth in the鈥�

The Wild Duck Cluster (M11) This open star cluster in the Milky Way is well known to amateur astronomers as a particularly rich and colorful cluster.鈥�

The following is an excerpt from a column by University of 缅北禁地 Springfield Associate Professor of Astronomy-Physics John Martin. This column appeared in鈥�