RE: Some Astrophotos I took on my birthday (August 4)
August 16, 2011 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2011 at 1:10 pm by orogenicman.)
(August 16, 2011 at 9:00 am)Rhythm Wrote: 6 inch. That RC rig is a piece of work..lol.
It really is a masterpiece. Not as awesome as their larger selections, but for the size, it is a real work horse.
Here is an image from just such a scope to show what it can accomplish:
![[Image: m51.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=gallery.rcopticalsystems.com%2Fgallery%2Fm51.jpg)
Crap. It runed out so large that I can't access the edit button. Here is another that is from the same system that is smaller.
![[Image: M63-600x401.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.fourthdimensionastroimaging.com%2Fsitebuilder%2Fimages%2FM63-600x401.jpg)
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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