RE: Cool Things That Make You Happy
March 25, 2013 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2013 at 11:39 am by orogenicman.)
When a "reject" image finally comes together after a year of tinkering:
![[Image: M101_rgb_adjust_zpsc205c7ce.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2FM101_rgb_adjust_zpsc205c7ce.jpg)
Messier 101, The Pinwheel Galaxy, in Ursa Major.
It is still a bit noisy, but overall it's the best version I've managed with the amount of data I have.
Image:
15 x 200 sec = 75 minutes at ISO 800
Taken on April 18, 2012 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James baker Center for Astronomy, in Curby, Indiana.
Messier 101, The Pinwheel Galaxy, in Ursa Major.
It is still a bit noisy, but overall it's the best version I've managed with the amount of data I have.
Image:
15 x 200 sec = 75 minutes at ISO 800
Taken on April 18, 2012 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James baker Center for Astronomy, in Curby, Indiana.
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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! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
