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Originally Posted by gary
In correspondence with Alex earlier this month, he said he had spent many
nights in front of the computer looking at Sloan Digital Sky Survey images.
At the time, he said he had looked at more than 2,000 galaxies and compact clusters
that would fit in the 8' FoV of the 10.4m GranTeCan telescope. He was hoping
to find a suitable pair of interacting galaxies that had not previously been
studied with a large aperture scope or the HST.
It will be interesting to learn what target he eventually proposed and of course
we anxiously await the all important report that it was clear on the night.
Many of us will remember Lesa Moore's account of being granted time
on the Kecks atop Mauna Kea only to fly all the way to Hawaii, get to the
top of the mountain and it snowed.
Hopefully the weather in thne Canary Islands will be just like that featured on the sunniest of
La Palma postcards.  |
Amazing, as an amateur astroimager (heck any astronomer really??) he has won the ultimate prize.
Have to say though.. a wide field time lapse movie specialist getting time on a 10.4m with a 7' X 7' FOV deep sky imaging instrument is positively scandalous
Can't wait to see his image, I have my fingers crossed he picks a galaxy that has a supernova occur in it during his precious hour of imaging
Mike