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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
... Light left this Galaxy to be captured by anyone keen enough to be looking for it.
Its a huge photo, so I will provide a link:
http://home.comcast.net/~slitherjef/...o/m31frame.jpg
Over 2 million light years away in Andromeda is a Galaxy with the Catalog number, M31. I shot this data last year November 2007 with my 200mm lens and canon 30D. I shot 10 exposures from my back yard at 60sec each. I loaded the data in photoshop and went to work creating a decent image for what little data I had.
Well, tonight, since I was bored had a new stacking program that stacks the files for me. So I gave that a try, and with a little processing and the help from Noel Carboni's actions, I managed to come up with the above photo. Its not the full 10 images I fed into the program to stack, it rejected 5 of those frames, but I thought I would share anyway. Hope you enjoy
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
is that the galaxy scheduled to collide with ours some billion or so years from now?
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
Isn't nature wonderful?!
It's breathtaking
Since we're sharing...
http://www.bav-astro.de/sterne/monv8...e-20040304.jpg
Last edited by dr del; 12-22-2008 at 06:30 PM.
Reason: hotlinking I'm afraid but a link to it is fine ;-)
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
Originally Posted by mainbutter
is that the galaxy scheduled to collide with ours some billion or so years from now?
Yes, and it should be spectacular. Too bad no one will be around to see it
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
Originally Posted by Pandora
Extra credit if you can tell me what that is and / or its designation
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
Well, since no one guessed what:
http://www.bav-astro.de/sterne/monv8...e-20040304.jpg was, I will go ahead and tell you
The photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the designation is, V838 Monocerotis the object is actualy a light echo located in the dim constellation, Monoceros
More info on V838 Mon can be found:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...06/50/image/a/
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
Sweet pic! I love astronomy.
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Re: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
That is awesome. I can just imagine what is out there!
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