It was Clear Sunday ! NGC4565 aka Caldwell 38

[Whitters]

On the laptop screen the galaxy arms streach almost from the top to the bottom of the field some 17'.
Taken with C8 at f6.3 10 x 73sec exposures.
Please let me know if it doesn't look so long on your screen sometimes the ttf laptop screen gives better details at low brightmess levels than glass screens.

[ This Message was edited by: whitters on 2003-03-03 23:32 ]

[ This Message was edited by: Whitters on 2003-03-05 16:45 ]

[Ian]

looking good!
Is your C8 one of the fast ones or are you using a focal reducer?

Ian

[Whitters]

Using a focal reducer.

[Whitters]

Also now looking at the image here at work, the length of the arms are reduced by the difference in the way the glass screens reporoduce the image.

[Whitters]

Played with brightness settings on a glass display.





[ This Message was edited by: whitters on 2003-03-04 23:07 ]

[Rick]

Has the previous version vanished?

[Ian]

certainly looks like it. I preferred the other, but then I am using a TFT screen

[Whitters]

Try it now boys.

[Rick]

That's better! Thanks.

[Whitters]

To give some scale the height of the frame is just over 1/4 of a degree thats hald the apparent diameter of the moon, this is a huge object in the sky.