It always pleases me to see pictures of NGC 4216, the edge-on spiral galaxy with...

		tristramb 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads It always pleases me to see pictures of NGC 4216, the edge-on spiral galaxy with a star beside its nucleus. I used to use it as a pointer to the short-period contact binary star CC Comae Berenices back when I used observe eclipsing binaries with my Celestron 8.

Nice! I was never much of a visual observer--I never had the patience.