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Professional astronomer Michael Merrifield tries his hand at some backyard astronomy during the 2020 lockdown. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Deep Sky Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/DeepSkyVideos Our videos on Messier Objects: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects More Merrifield videos: http://bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist Mike Merrifield is an astronomer at the University of Nottingham. Mike tweets at: https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri Papers from this video Dwarfs Gobbling Dwarfs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2154 Cospatial Counterrotating Stellar Disks: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992ApJ...394L...9R/abstract Disentangling the stellar populations in the counter-rotating disc galaxy NGC 4550: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0535 Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran http://www.bradyharanblog.com Email list: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9