![[Image: ic180516Bit_RGB_processed1_zps54ba19c1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fic180516Bit_RGB_processed1_zps54ba19c1.jpg)
This is a complete reworking of this image from the last time I posted it. I think the colors are more balanced and smoother, and the stars are much better, though not perfect. It just amazes me how much stuff is in this stellar nursery (particularly the profusion of stars), which in this image is about 70-80 light years across. The Heart Nebula is about 7,500 light years away from the Earth.
Enjoy.
Image:
Integration: 24 x 300 seconds = 120 minutes total exposure at ISO 800
Image was taken on November 11, 2012 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James Baker Center for Astronomy, Curby, Indiana.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- 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
-- 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
