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Old 29-04-2012, 09:42 AM
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Deep Schmidt images - weird "galaxian things" to challenge amateurs

Greg wrote, regarding deeper images of the weird LSB details in the M84/M86 field:
Definitely on the to do list now. Thanks very much for the info!

Bad galaxy man sayeth:
Malin made a lot of very deep images by means of co-adding multiple UK Schmidt plates, and while it is still not easy to go this deep, some amateurs now do. Many of his very deep images of galaxies can be found at:

http://www.aao.gov.au/images
(Just click on "Deep Galaxy Images" and you will find the many very deep galaxy images by Malin)

There is a lot of very weird stuff going on here, and much of it now potentially imageable by very persistent amateurs.
Many of these strange phenomena have never been investigated properly by professional astronomers......
so imaging ultra-deep on galaxies is definitely one way for amateurs to find new things that have not been seen before!!
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