This collage is a celebration of the great diversity and beauty of our visible Universe as represented by a wide range of both familiar and more exotic objects, which are all visible in amateur telescopes using modest equipment. The immense and unfathomable distances are illustrated by sorting the objects according to their distance from Earth.

All images were acquired from Auckland, New Zealand, by Rolf Wahl Olsen during 2005 to 2010 with a 10” Newtonian f/5 telescope on a Losmandy G-11 equatorial mount and a ToUCam Pro SC1.

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