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To: sig226
Great image!!

It appears as an upside down diamond ring.

I took this one about 2 weeks ago. M51 Galaxy, at about 37 million light years away. There is some dispute as to how distant this Galaxy actually is. This is the most distant object I have imaged with some success. It's a set of 15 exposures at 50 seconds each, processed and stacked into one image.

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9 posted on 05/16/2008 10:19:35 PM PDT by dragnet2
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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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