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Originally Posted by tornado33
Wow, its like a painting, so full of detail. And on top of that using a self modified camera 
Did you ever think it was possible to take images like that back in the old days of film astrophotography?
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I always aspired to be able to do images like this one in the old days of film, of course I soon realised it would be almost impossible without setting up my own color printing lab and even then film just didnt have the response to light that one needed to do images like this (especially in less than 20 minutes!).
It really makes me wonder what we might be able to do in say 10 or 20 years time from now. Maybe we'll have technology to open windows in the atmosphere and allow our 'scopes to peer into deep space unimpeded by the Earths atmosphere, or maybe NASA will decide the only way to keep the Hubble Telescope is to lease some of its time to amateur astronomers!
thanks, Paul