Musca (The Fly)

Musca Constellation with constellation lines

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Musca (Latin for Fly) is one of the minor southern constellations. It contains the soft X-ray transient Nova Muscae 1991 which is a binary star, where one of the stars is a black hole.

Lens	135mm Vivitar
Exposure	10 Minutes
Film	Kodak Supra 400
Date	February 2001
Guiding	Telescope Piggyback
Location	Kaituna, Masterton, New Zealand