(July 9, 2015 at 6:46 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: ignoramus, not sure who you're refferring to but I would want to add that it's absolutely unfuckingbelievable that he could just capture that image by himself. These kinds of pictures still seem like something out of a (CGI) movie for me. If I didn't know any better I would much rather assume that this was the work of an artist, rather than plain old reality in it's best moments. I think I can see why some would think that. Just think about it, who would describe/paint the universe like this, before we could actually look at it as closely as we can now?
#TheUniverseIsAWonderfulPlace
I assure you that I took that image. Here is my scope:
![[Image: waitingforoldyeller_zps30911d68.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fwaitingforoldyeller_zps30911d68.jpg)
The mount is a Losmandy G-11. The scope is a 200mm f5 Newtonian with a Baader MPCC coma corrector, a low profile motorized crayford focuser, and an 80mm f5 guide scope. The camera I used to take the OP image is in my hand in this image.
'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
