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To: dragnet2

Nice. It makes you appreciate the quality of the toys NASA gets to play with. :)


10 posted on 05/17/2008 4:51:55 AM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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To: sig226
I do appreciate it, as it is my and your money after all.

That being said, the advances of high end digital imaging cameras, even when the imaging train is coupled with smaller instruments, it has been nothing short of unimaginable leaps in digital astronomical imaging and processing resulting in very high resolution imagery.

Valuable research and many discoveries are now being made and conducted at the amateur or private level if you will.

11 posted on 05/17/2008 10:10:52 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: sig226

In addition, what it really makes me be appreciative is one can now obtain a digital image of an object approximately 37 million light years away, with a 50 second exposure under moderately light polluted conditions, in a way that dramatically reduces extended tracking issues due to the short exposures lengths. Compounded by the fact that today’s software can process these images in a way that was never imagined just 15 short years ago.


12 posted on 05/17/2008 10:26:44 PM PDT by dragnet2
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