Thank you guys for all your nice and informative comments!
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Originally Posted by Terry B
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Thats awesome Terry! Very interesting project. I'm going to take another inage in 2011 and see how much it has moved.
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Originally Posted by renormalised
Nice shot of the wee little fella!!
Now for Alpha Cen AB??
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Thanks Carl, here is a close up of Alpha A/B with Solar System comparison:
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image/123574641
And one of Alpha A/B with long exposure here:
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image/123574603
Note the double spikes from the two components. This is one of my older images though, so the processing could be better...
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Rolf I have seen many spectacular deep sky objects, lots of clear sharp renditions of our solar system planets, our own star and our moon but ya know what?..this image does it for me, not because it is visually spectacular, although your processing is lovely, but rather because it simply and beautifully conveys a real sense of just what it is - and that is, another star, the next nearest star even. It even looks like a sphere and appears to just hang there in space. It's just great to stare at that small red pea and remember that there are no other stars between our star and this one yet it is some 40 million million km away......
Thanks for taking this, it's an excellent astronomical image.
Mike
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Thank you very much Mike. Those were my thoughts exactly about this image. It's not a 'visual feast' in itself, but it is certainly thought provoking.
Glad you all enjoyed it