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The Hunter’s hidden treasures

2020 is almost over – good riddance, many will say – but hopefully December will bring with it some sparkling clear and frosty nights for us to sweep with our telescopes. Obviously we will all swing our reflectors and refractors towards the Orion Nebula (Messier 42) and lose ourselves in its clouds of green and

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