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Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:30 pm
by Flatfingers
Seeing M13 though my university's 14" refractor was jaw-droppingly astonishing. It was like a 3D holographic projection... but all of the dots were real stars, circling each other in a billion-year dance.
It's why globular clusters will always be my favorite deep-sky object, and why I bother trying to do the occasional bit of astrophotography myself.
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:13 pm
by Cody
Got my first telescope when I was twelve, and the first thing I went looking for was Saturn.
Seeing it with my own eyes was awesome! This is Cassini's final full-ring portrait - beautiful!
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 12:00 am
by Baile nam Fonn
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:27 am
by Dinosawer
Today's APOD: supernova remnant Puppis A
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170929.html
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 6:27 pm
by Cody
K2 - no, not
that K2,
this one is 1.5 billion miles away.
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:33 am
by Dinosawer
Today's APOD of 2 comets and the Pleiades
And of 2 days ago, of NGC281
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:18 pm
by Cody
One from the archive - three galaxies and a comet:
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:12 am
by Dinosawer
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:58 pm
by IronDuke
Even the prettiest of space games never look quite that pretty. @.@
--IronDuke
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:37 pm
by Cody
IronDuke wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:58 pm
Even the prettiest of space games never look quite that pretty.
Filters have a lot to answer for - a lot of that stuff you'd not see with normal vision.
The Horsehead Nebula in infrared is nice:
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:21 pm
by Flatfingers
Hokey smokes -- somebody's got Astrodon filters and a good tracking mount.
A request, though: for those of us who sometimes view this forum on a dinky phone with a less-than-stellar data connection, could we please wrap images in a spoiler tag?
Merci!
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:25 pm
by Victor Tombs
Beautiful images, ladies and gentlemen. Just keep them coming!
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:39 am
by Dinosawer
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:56 am
by Cody
Gotta love APOD! It's been my browser's homepage for years - first thing I see every morning on boot-up.
Re: SPAAACE
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:20 pm
by Cody
If you're lucky enough to have clear skies, the Orionids peak this weekend.