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A keen amateur astronomer located on the West Coast of Scotland. Usually found fighting the damn Scottish weather

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Sunday, 6 October 2013

M42

M42, the Great Nebula in Orion. Taken from my back garden earlier this year.

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Stefan Franczuk: IT Consultant specialising in Big Data. In a previous life I was a Physicist and hold a PhD in Experimental Photo-Nuclear Physics from the University of Glasgow. Science and Technology nut, Old Pilot and Motorcyclist, unpaid astronomer.

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