Issue 629: A Special Anniversary + Uncle Rod’s Yearly M13 + The Messier Project 8

Before we get to the subject(s) of this month’s blog, muchachos, I want to acknowledge an anniversary: This month marks twenty years—yes, twenty—of Uncle Rod’s AstroBlog. In that long-ago summer of 2006, did I have an inkling we’d still be here two decades down the line? Hell , no! I’d have laughed if somebody had suggested such an absurdity. Not that there haven’t been changes as we’ve rolled…