[Lvas] Amazing M-2 Dark Lane Image

[roger ivester]

All,

 

Re: July observers challenge object; M-2 Globular Cluster In Aquarius

 

Found a most interesting photo of M-2. This is the first image that I have seen that shows the curving dark lane that was mentioned by John Mallas, "The Messier Album" using a 4-inch Unitron refractor. This 

 

The following link presents an image from a 20-inch Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain telescope. 

 

Also on the site, a description from: "The Deep-Sky Field Guide To Uranmetria 2000", Willmann-Bell, Inc.  Visual observers may be able to detect a curving dark lane in the NE sector. 

 

The visual discription is only the second after the  "Messier Album".  

 

I have also attached a sketch of the Mallas sketch. 

 

Pretty amazing. 

 

Roger 

 

  
www.kopernik.org/images/archive/m2.htm
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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