The full moon has been spoiling things for most of this week. A lot of deep sky objects are either obscured by it or masked by its light. So I’ve tended to point at brighter, open, star clusters instead. This one is Messier 39, the Pyramid Cluster. It lies about 1,000 light years away in the direction of Cygnus, and is number 39 on Charles Messier’s list-of-things-that-aren’t-interesting-because-they-aren’t-comets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_39

I managed to fill in the missing bit in the Andromeda Galaxy. Although I’m not entirely happy with the colour and contrast in this image.

I did get rather a nice picture of the Double Cluster in Perseus. This remains one of my favourite wide field objects. Lovely in binoculars or in the telescope with a low magnification eyepiece.

And finally, Delta Lyrae, a beautiful optical double star with a gorgeous colour contrast.

It’s the 40th anniversary of Live Aid. This was about the rich helping the poor. Christians invented the rich helping the poor. But don’t worry if you missed it. There’s still plenty of poverty and famine around.

https://mega.nz/file/R6dTFDLJ#b0ZNHFHkCq89y_k4Ch-lmNyOqmN6FphOUWlxGYjlHe8