Well due to every concievable excuse....it's been a couple of months but when it rains it pours
This is the first of three data sets I collected last week with the new FLI ProLine 16803. What a camera, it is fast and operates flawlessly and smoothly just as the previous PL11002 did
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This image encompases a huge 1.6deg X 1.6deg field around the famous Sombrero Galaxy.
The seeing wasn't very good but at an image scale of 1.4"/pixel there are many hundreds of tiny background galaxies visible and if you pan around the full size full res version you can see at least three distant galaxy clusters.
The following link takes you to a gallery of images made from the same data set, each image in the album zooms in further on the main prize.
Make sure you click on "Original" in the sizes menu at the bottom of each image page to see the largest file size
Take your time amongst the images and enjoy, my personal favourite is the flying saucer version...while the super close up postage stamp is especially for Fred
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/m104