Sky & Tel USA

[Peter Ward]

Got a pleasant surprise today when I opened my e-version of the November 2019 Sky & Telescope.

They also liked my take on M42 :cool:

Seems 42 really is the answer to: life the Universe and everything :)

[SkyWatch]

Congratulations Peter! Well done. :)

[Peter Ward]

Thanks.

I actually haven't submitted anything to S&T for many, many years....and to submit...OMG not another M42.... I did with some reservation.

Guess it was a keeper afterall :thumbsup:

[Ukastronomer]

:)

[JA]

Well done Peter :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[Decimus]

Congratulations, Peter. I first came across your M42 image on ATS (before I saw it in S&T), and could not take my eyes off the stunning, superb detail and colour. It's the best M42 I have ever seen and deserves to appear on APOD too! :thumbsup:

Cheers,
Richard

[Peter Ward]

Thanks gentlemen. I don't know whether this happens with other imagers, but occasionally after an imaging session, I see newly gathered raw data pop up on my monitor for the first time and think "Wow! the tracking and seeing is exceptional tonight"...hence spend extra time with a target I'd not normally spend a lot of time on.

Unfortunately they are all too rare, beautifully corrected optics can't do much with 4 arc second seeing... however it's nice to have the gear to take advantage of exceptional conditions when they do occur.

[h0ughy]

Done well Peter