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July 2025
- How weird is the Milky Way?
- We review William Optics’ RedCat91 refractor
- Rediscovering Beverly Lynds’ dark nebulae
- Wonders to observe in the constellation Andromeda
Picture of the Day
High-altitude shower
Xiaofeng Qu, taken from Lijiang, Yunnan, China
The Geminid meteor shower appears to rain down upon the Gaomeigu Astronomical Observatory (altitude: 10,500 feet [3,200 meters]) in this carefully composed 10-panel panorama. Also visible are numerous Hα features glowing across the sky, like the Orion Loop just above the observatory dome. The imager used 4 Nikon mirrorless cameras and a variety of wide-angle lenses to capture the meteor streaks.