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Old 06-02-2011, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies View Post
I thought it might be fun to find supernova SN 1987a in amongst all the nebulosity. Here's the result. A mere 900% enlargement!! A bit extreme of course, and forgive the resultant artefacts, but at least you can see the colour of the expanding shell! The field of view is a tiny 3.9 x 2.7 arcmins. BTW, I only did some curves processing - no sharpening at all.

Small:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/132258981/large

Large: (Next to a full res crop of my 30 Doradus image)
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/132258981/original

Not quite a Hubble image (!) but, like I said, a bit of fun!

Cheers, Marcus
Excellent Marcus, great zoom in, I like it

If I squint and sit back from the screen a little I recon I can make out the two expanding rings, very cool

Mike
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