My Ten Most-recent Additions

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	I have added four small constellations to my collection, Vulpecula, Sagitta, Delphinus, and Equuleus.  Because they are small and there is little of either mythological or astronomical interest in the whole area, I have included them on a single page.
	A new picture of M45, The Pleiades, showing the blue nubulosity.  After clicking on the thumbnail, please move your pointer off the image.
	I may have appeared to neglect Jupiter this year.  That is only partly true.  I have taken the pictures, but I failed to process them or put them on this site.  I have rectified this omission and created a new page of images, trying to concentrate on interesting features this year, including an animation of a shadow transit.  The thumbnail is from 28 September 2011.
			I have added Camelopardalis to my collection of constellations, and its best features, NGC 1502 to my DSO page, and Kemble's Cascade to my This-and-That page.
	Three more pictures of M101 and Supernova SN2011fe.  The link will take you to the latest picture but the new ones are for 30th Sept and 5th Dec 2011, and 6th Jan 2012.  Currently the supernova is at about 14th magnitude.  I have estimated the magnitude of the supernova as a function of time and I now include a graph.
	NGC 891, Caldwell 23, is a spiral galaxy in Andromeda, seen edge on.
	Two pictures of NGC 7331, Caldwell 30, taken in August and September 2011.
	New images of M57, the Ring Nebula, in natural and false colours.
	I have added M2, a globular cluster, to my collection of Messier objects.
		The Leo Triplet is a group of three galaxies close together in Leo.  M65 and M66 are closest and I could get them in a single field, but I needed a separate picture for NGC 3628, the faintest of the three.
	The Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888 or C27, is an emission nebula in Cygnus.  This thumbnail is a reduction of my main picture, but the whole nebula seems to be more visible in it than in the larger picture.
	The full saga of my home-built, roll-off-roof observatory.

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