Friday 20 February 2009

A couple of nice spiral galaxies

If you can recognise these, you have passed the test as a good experienced amateur astronomer. As a further clue, I also got a decent picture of a galaxy nearby, just one field width off to the North. I believe 6 x 30 second pictures on the 20" telescope is all it took to get the raw pictures, but the processing was what removed the light pollution and brought all the detail out, especially on the left galaxy.

3 comments:

The Astro Geek said...

Looks suspiciously like M65 & M66 to me?? Am I Right or am I right.

Dr Dan said...

You have passed the test, Malcolm!

The Astro Geek said...

cool cheers Dan

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