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Ok, so this is totally unrelated to furries, but I was so proud of it and I just want to show it off!
This is a black and white photograph I took of Galaxy M108. It took about 140 photographs to create and this is the final picture after processing and manipulation.
The bright white spots are stars, in the foreground (ie. they're in our galaxy). Its an edge-on galaxy so you don't get to see the cool spirals that you normally do but you can still see the bright center and whats really interesting is how dusty and dirty it looks; very cloudy. This galaxy is located in the Big Dipper.
Our eyes work sensing brightness on a logarithmic type scale. I scaled this image logarithmically as well and I think it turned out quite nice. It darkens space but brings out the galaxy and stars fairly nicely compared to the other scalings I did.
The one major improvement I could do with this is removing the fringing (ie. wispy bit of grey-ishness in the space above); I'll have to take better Flats next time. A minor improvement would just be picking a night with better weather conditions.
Taken with an Apogee AP47 CCD camera with a 40cm Evans' reflecting telescope. North is at the top of the frame, East on the left. Image is 7' x 7' (ie ' = arcminutes, 60 arcminutes in 1 degree, so this is a .1167 degree^2 piece of the sky).
This is a black and white photograph I took of Galaxy M108. It took about 140 photographs to create and this is the final picture after processing and manipulation.
The bright white spots are stars, in the foreground (ie. they're in our galaxy). Its an edge-on galaxy so you don't get to see the cool spirals that you normally do but you can still see the bright center and whats really interesting is how dusty and dirty it looks; very cloudy. This galaxy is located in the Big Dipper.
Our eyes work sensing brightness on a logarithmic type scale. I scaled this image logarithmically as well and I think it turned out quite nice. It darkens space but brings out the galaxy and stars fairly nicely compared to the other scalings I did.
The one major improvement I could do with this is removing the fringing (ie. wispy bit of grey-ishness in the space above); I'll have to take better Flats next time. A minor improvement would just be picking a night with better weather conditions.
Taken with an Apogee AP47 CCD camera with a 40cm Evans' reflecting telescope. North is at the top of the frame, East on the left. Image is 7' x 7' (ie ' = arcminutes, 60 arcminutes in 1 degree, so this is a .1167 degree^2 piece of the sky).
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It's so cool. Next time I'm going to go for a more interesting galaxy with spirals. Also going to try a colour image, though it takes about 3x as many photographs. I stayed up from 9pm-1am just getting clear filter (black and white) photographs and red filter (red) ones. I'd have to stick around and get blue filter (blue) ones. Then I have to combine the blue, red and clear ones tinging each to their respective colours to get the final image. I was amazed to find out all the colour in the photos you see are fake; you have to add them!
Thanks! Yeah, well it helps when the 40cm Evans' is a huge behemoth of a telescope on a motorized equatorial mount in a dome at an actual observatory. I was taking 60s exposures to get this image. Congrats with seeing M42 with a Tasco Refractor though! I don't know it's size but I cringe at the thought of refractors. I plan on getting a 10" Dobsonian soon for more casual viewing.
*giggles* Yeah, that does help, slightly. Wow. Good use of the limited time available to you! Telescope time (at that level) is usually at a very high premium. My Tasco's like the $200 model discussed farther down the thread. At the most of what I could see that night, it was a green, fuzzy blob, and I couldn't make out much detail, but I did some research and figured it out from there. My telescope is mostly for observation of the planets, probably out to about Saturn on a clear night, I've just really not gone any farther than Mars.
It's funny...almost no one uses that telescope. I have a key and I can go use it pretty much whenever I want! Yeah refractors are usually good for planets and narrow field stuff. I'm sure its gorgeous for looking at the moon! *dies* I'm eager for the Dobsonian I'm getting; I can't wait to start really looking for Deep Sky Objects and planets.
*laughs* Yes, it is a good moon-shotter. Just have to use the green filter cap on the eyepiece, otherwise it really gives me some eyestrain. With the Barlow Lens and the 10x eyepiece, I can almost make out individual shadows on some of the mountain ranges....but again, ya have to look fast, unless you're good at tweaking with the knobs.
Oh man, I look at this picture and I'll never forget the night I worked on taking it. It was quite a story. To make it short, it was -45C out (-50F) and when I was done my car wouldn't start. My friend drove me back into the city to buy booster cables and we came back and it wouldn't work. Later I learned my gas line froze! He had to leave and I phoned the tow-truck. It was a bad night so they never managed to come until 5am.
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