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I wrote yesterday about my remote imaging of the Orion Alnitak area.
Well, Robin Scagell read it and noticed my image of the Flame nebula.
I said in the post, the images were unprocessed – just straight downloads from the Canon camera. So he quickly ran the small image I had shown, through his Photoshop software.
To my surprise, he pointed out that the Horsehead nebula was discernable in the image, after auto-adjusting the color levels. read on..
You may know by now, I have a new “toy”. It’s a Canon 1000D dslr camera (also known as a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS) and I got it as a Christmas present to myself!
It produced a lovely astro image of the Orion nebula, earlier this week. But I was told, (quite rightly), the focus was not there.
So I had another go last night, as it was the first clear night since. read on..
Simulation of a "small" black hole at the center of the Milky Way (credit: Wikimedia)
It’s been suspected for some time..
The stuff of Einstein, the stuff of Science Fiction and the stuff of Nothing.. sort of. It’s a region of empty space, sorta kinda..
German astronomers have spent 16 years, studying the movement of stars near the center of our galaxy (the “Milky Way”).
They have concluded there is indeed, a massive “object” there, perhaps 4 million times more massive than our local star, the Sun. read on..
