Richard,
That's a beauiful pic of M33. It reminds me of the very first view I had the pleasure of seeing thru the Great
Refractor up at Lick back in 1975. It was a stunning view of one of the jeweled arms of M33. The color of the arm
showed yellows, reds, blues, and golds. This impression will last my lifetime.
Peter
Richard Crisp wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to a
> first-light image I had taken of M33 through my
> new (to me) Tak FSQ106. The night the image was
> taken had a lot of moon and there was also a lot
> of humidity.
>
> Over the past two evenings, I have managed to take
> the necessary components to create another M33
> image. This one was taken using the Extender-Q
> focal length extender so as to better fill the
> frame of the ST7E CCD Camera.
>
> I'm happy to say that this image is better than
> the first one. By the way, the reason I was
> watching the weather so closely the past two
> nights is because I was working on this puppy.
>
> M33 is like a jewel-box full of color! Jim
> Feldhouse had mentioned to me that there were
> several nice nebulae in M33 and one (in the lower
> left of the image, near the edge) is like an M33's
> Orion Nebula.
>
> http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/rdcrisp/vwp?.dir=/ccd_astro&.dnm=M33+Tak+FSQ106+w+Extender+Q.jpg&.src=ph&.view=t&.hires=t
>
> I'm rather enjoying the backyard imaging. Nice to
> be able to go inside and warm up while those
> hour-long images are exposing. Now if I can just
> automate it like Ray Gralak has done, then I can
> actually sleep at night!
> rdc
>
> --
> Richard Crisp
> rdcrisp@No-Spam
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