Thanks for the nice comment. Wow, so you could
*actually* see the colors in the arms. That must
have been fantastic. I thought that sort of stuff
only showed up in images and photos.
M33 is just like a jewel box it seems with all the
colors.
Gotta run out to see now NGC6946 is coming along,
the weather turned out to be like the past two
nights: good after sunset with clear skies!
rdc
Peter Natscher wrote:
> 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
>
-- Richard Crisp rdcrisp@No-Spam
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