Ad Astra Observatory

Sweet Jimbo! I am glad all is working. Is this with the new lens you ground?

Cliff

At 10:21 AM 6/23/2006, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I picked up this shot last night as a sort of test shot; I was
>making sure that the mount was all set up and working properly.
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>This is a single unguided 90 second exposure of M13, the Great
>Hercules Cluster. M13 is a globular cluster orbiting the Milky Way;
>I like to think of them as “mini galaxies” — there are around 1

>million stars in M13, all orbiting around a common center. If we
>lived on a planet orbiting one of those stars, the sky would be so
>full of stars at all times that it would never get fully dark at
>night. There would be dozens of stars in the sky as bright as
>Jupiter, with multiple stars visible in full daylight. We’d probably
>be unaware of the existence of the Milky Way; it would be way too
>bright to pick up stars outside the cluster.
>
>I’m happy to report that the polar alignment, GO-TO alignment, and

>LPS (Light Pollution Suppression) filter (which were the 3 things I
>was testing last night) all performed quite well, thank you very much. (:
>
>Watch this space for more photos as time permits.
>
>Enjoy,
>Jimbo
>PS: For comparison, there’s a photo of M13 on my website; it’s the
>second globular at the top of the “Deep Sky” page.

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