(SNES) The Red Spider Nebula

[Albireo54@aol.com]

Hi Everyone,

Nice pic on Astronomy Photo of the Day today, available at:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html   (and at other sites)

of the Red Spider nebula, NGC 6537. I've never observed this one in a 
telescope, but it turns out that it's only 3 degrees SW of the now famous 
star cluster BMM 1 in Sagittarius (aka Barry's Cluster). 

The Red Spider is only magnitude 12.0, and 5" in diameter (less than 1/10 of 
the Ring Nebula) but it would be an easy target in the 16" at FDO. Of course, 
since today's photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, I wouldn't 
expect that we'll see anything at all "arachnid" about this tiny object's 
appearance!

Doug Stewart
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