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Scupted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich
constellation Sagittarius.
This was one of my first semi-long exposures with my current rig. Image taken on May 5, 2010 at the Louisville Astronomical Society Curby, Indiana Observatory. Guiding wasn't very good, but my
equipment was new and I hadn't worked out all the bugs.
Image:
2x120 seconds for a total exposure of 20 minutes at ISO 800.
Image scale: 0.17 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 50.7 x 76.1 arcmin
Equipment:
Modified Konus 200mm f5 Newtonian
Losmany G-11 Gemini GEM mount
Losmandy heavy duty tripod
80mm f5 Orion Shorty guide scope
Orion Star shooter autoguider
Hutech modified Canon T1i
I plan to take a long exposures of this object early this summer.
'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
