Posted on 05/11/2011 9:03:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Nice picture! What size telescope did you use and is the color in the picture natural or “enhanced”?
Equatorial mounted 10” SCT. Colors are basically what the camera saw with CLS filters in the optical train.
This will explain colors further.
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/COLOR.HTM
Lot’s of this going around lately; there was thread about one in a galaxy some 3.5-4.0 billion light years away, in Draco a month or so ago.
A friend of mine has an app on his phone with a celestial atlas that shows stars and constellations in whatever direction you point the phone (as if taking a picture). Very neat (and works in the daytime too! ;-)). It uses GPS and g-force (tilt sensor) data to calculate the coordinates and display the information.
I saw that one.
hmm.. maybe the universe just is going thru a long cycle of chaos and all we can do is kick back and dodge the cosmic bullets.... getting hit direct by a GRB is a one in a quintaamillion shot,, buttt.. considering some unexplainable acts of nature,, they may occur more oft then we like to admit.
lucky we’re not getting our eyebrows singed more..
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