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Old 09-02-2011, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by bkm2304 View Post
Right! that does it. I'm onto it. Never knew there were amateur records before! Makes my 20 mag, 9.7 Giga LY QSO effort look lazy .

Richard
Yeh but Richard, it was imaged with an IR sensitive outfit so it is hard to compare with an image taken in purely visible light..? They got this deep with a red sensitive FLI and the right filters - I am gathering IR filter..?

Hmm?..a "physicist-engineer" using a $100 000+ (?) instalation at a commercially operating Observatory...is now considered an amateur.. ..pushing the deffinition boundaries there a bit I recon

Amazing stuff still

Mike
maybe I have a go with my pipe cleaner Starfire
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