Peter Ward posted a link recently to an absolutely mind blowing Eta Carina image by Johannes Schedler taken from Namibia with a Philip Keller design 20" Corrected Cassegrain, well I think Johannes may finally have some competition from an RC..? Here is Adam Blocks recent m104 image taken with his new 24" RCOS scope in Arizona:
(Warning it's a 3.2meg image)
http://www.mlobservatory.com/m104mlscab.jpg
Deffinitely the best M104 I have seen outside Hubble with a very natural seamless halo full of globular clusters - very hard to get just right. This is also the first image in which I have noticed the break away sections of dark dust cloud just off the edge of each end of the central dust lane. What an amzing array of distant galaxies in the background too!
Incredible!
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Here is a link to more of the first light images by Adam:
http://www.mlobservatory.com/firstlight.html
Enjoy
Mike