New Astrophoto
February 13, 2012 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2012 at 4:58 pm by orogenicman.)
I finally got the opportunity to tqake some astrophotos last night at the club observatory. Many amateurs have taken images of Messier 42, the great nebula in Orion. One of the challenges is to image the core and in so doing, image the trapezium stars at the core, which is difficult because they are so bright. I've done so on several occasions, but, despite the poor seeing and resulting soft focus, last night I managed to get a pretty good one. The following image is a stack of 60-10 second images, processed in photoshop.
![[Image: m42_core.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fm42_core.jpg)
M42 CORE
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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)
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- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- 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! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
