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08-06-2008, 08:07 AM
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Highest Observatory in Oz
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It just keeps getting better
Just when you thought you had seen the best......this time it's M83 
Taken by Yohannes Schedler again with the 20" corrected Cassegrain from Namibia - just spectacular!
http://panther-observatory.com/galle.../M83_F9_42.htm
Click on the link at the top of the page for the really big file it's amazing!!!!
I want one of those Keller scopes!..?....darling?...err?...com e here, I have something to ask you...... 
Mike
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08-06-2008, 08:55 AM
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must agree, look at the details and the background galaxies..................... must have been a DSLR Eh Mike 
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08-06-2008, 09:45 AM
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I haven't seen an amateur image of this galaxy that comes close, heck I can't think of a proffesional that looks image like this one (although we don't see many of those anyway). This image is simply fantastic, beautiful and stupendous, I love it 
DSLR..? 
Mike
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08-06-2008, 10:51 AM
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Support your local RFS
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A truly awesome image Mike, the detail is really something else.
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08-06-2008, 12:08 PM
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lots of eyes on you!
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anyone care to count the # of galaxies???
WOW
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08-06-2008, 12:25 PM
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Have to agree as well that is some awesome capture, truly beautiful, well done indeed.
Leon
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08-06-2008, 12:49 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by davidpretorius
anyone care to count the # of galaxies???
WOW
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Actually, I've got a new image I will be releasing soon that will give it a run ...stay tuned
Mike 
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08-06-2008, 12:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Actually, I've got a new image I will be releasing soon that will give it a run ...stay tuned
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given the weather and the way it has been what Mike has done is paste up some hubble images in the hallway, then add some sparkle lights from bunnings and turned off all the lights and started to image........
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09-06-2008, 07:52 AM
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Quietly watching
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09-06-2008, 08:06 AM
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Dazzled by the Cosmos.
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Thanks for the link Mike – that is one heck of an M83, "simply the best, better than all the rest" in the words of Tina Turner!
In the immortal words of the Spice Girls, “Is it what you want, what you really, really want?” a 20" corrected Cassegrain. LOL!
Cheers
Dennis
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09-06-2008, 10:51 AM
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Every image i have seen on that website is the best i have seen to date.
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09-06-2008, 06:33 PM
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Wow - and the list of equipment on his site is enough to make you drool.
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11-06-2008, 08:56 AM
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No More Infinities
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Quote:
Originally Posted by venus
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For some reason, when I went to that page and viewed the piccie, for a minute it didn't show up, and I thought "well, you can't get any smoother than a completely black piccie!!!!" 
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