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To: dragnet2

I love M13. It’s one of my favorite Messier objects.


112 posted on 04/21/2009 6:12:46 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: BubbaBasher
Mine too for clusters.

But, my real interest are in galaxy's. It's weird, I'm almost drawn to these things.

Shot this one about 2 months ago, with the same camera/instrument, but no light filters were used in the optical train.

At 23 millions light years out, this is M-51, Whirlpool Galaxy.

This was a series of 26 images at 80 seconds each on the exposure. I shot this object again last weekend, and hopefully it will process out some better data.


121 posted on 04/21/2009 9:37:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (When seconds count, the police are only minutes away)
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