How's ya Pup going?

[strongmanmike]

Well wadda'ya know...took a 1 sec image of bright'ol Sirius for alignment purposes...and got this nice crisp little pup...kinda cool :)

Sirius B (http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/165081769/original)

What a nice little surprise, coolest 1 sec exposure I have ever taken I recon :lol:...and taken with just 1120mm of FL too :D

Not too far from the Hubble shot (http://www.universetoday.com/44985/sirius-b/) really either :eyepop:

[SimmoW]

Love it Mike! Sometimes the simplest pics still have deep value.

'Needs more data'

:rofl: :rofl:

[SimmoW]

Oh, and i had a laughing fit when I googled 'sirius pup'

[strongmanmike]

Hmmm yes, woof woof indeed :evil2: :lol:

Wanna come over and play.....:P

Mike

[LewisM]

Nah, that's a cosmic ray... it'll wash off with some good flats :P :P :P

[Atmos]

Nice Mike, never tried it! Might give it a go tomorrow night and see how my 677mm go does ;)

[COSMOPARADISE]

WOW never knew there was a pup..I synced sirius a few times tonight and didnt notice it. Def gonna chase this one round the yard tomorrow night :rundog: . Great pick up mike.

[topheart]

Thanks Mike - an interesting view indeed!
Cheers,
Tim

[Placidus]

Hot pixel.

Absolutely awesome, Mike. Never managed to resolve it back in the C11 days even using lucky imaging and video.

[Ryderscope]

Fantastic Mike, thanks for posting.

[strongmanmike]

Funny, yeah I thought it was a cosmic ray/hot pixel too at first, but it appeared in multiple 1 sec exposures during the centering/alignment process and always in the same spot relative to Sirius :)

It was so clearly resolved I was a bit surprised.

Mike

[SimmoW]

And Mike just won the award for 'most views for effort involved', hahaha. No stacking, no darks, no biases, no worries!

I took the same pic last night, saw it but it only reminded I need some new collimation tools....

[strongmanmike]

ha ha ha yeah, I work hard for my images Simmo :P

Mike

[LewisM]

OK, it's a hot pixel - send your CCD back to SX :) :P

[RickS]

Nice catch, Mikey! Now put some effort into the next one :lol:

[strongmanmike]

:sadeyes:....ok

[cometcatcher]

That's some Sirius resolution. Pun..... :P

[strongmanmike]

...?...nup, don't get it :question:....:lol:

[vlazg]

Sirius B was the first white dwarf star discovered. Its surface is actually hotter than Sirius A's - a scorching blue-white 24,800 K - yet its total luminosity is only 1/360th of our Sun's. The only way Sirius B can be both hot and dim is to be small - only 92% the size of Earth. From its observed orbital motion and Kepler's laws, Sirius B must have a mass nearly equal to the Sun's - yet its diameter is 50 times smaller. This means that Sirius B has an incredibly high density: about 25 tons per cubic inch, compared to the Sun's density of about 0.5 ounce per cubic inch.

Isn't the universe amazing..........:P

[strongmanmike]

Yes quite incredible... and all captured in 1 sec :D