Discover The Phoenix Region Magazine #15-5 (September 2025 - October 2025)

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DTPR SEPTEMBER THROUGH OCTOBER 2025 / SPORTS & FITNESS

The Moon

The moon was at about first quarter

when we shot this on November

20, 2012 in mediocre (1.0 arcsec)

seeing. The image is a composite

of five images that have been

stitched together, and each

exposure was 0.001 sec through

a V filter, a testiment to our

125mm Bonn shutter.

Image credit:

Massey/Neugent/

Levine/Lowell Obs./

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shaping history under the mesmerizing, star-studded

skies of Flagstaff, Arizona. Come and immerse

yourself in the rich tapestry of astronomy’s

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The Sombrero Galaxy

The Sombrero Galaxy (M 104) is a classic

edge-on spiral galaxy located about

8.5 Mpc (28 million light years)

away in the constallation of Virgo,

and is about 15 Kpc (50,000

light-years) across. This color

composite came from seven

1-min exposures in B, V, and

R obtained on 27 June

2013.

Image credit:

Massey/Neugent/

Lowell Obs./NSF