"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
Does anyone have any thoughts on the image yet? ...

Soooo humbling! The old ones are so far in the past, they've been and
gone already. The new ones - somewhat older than me! How many
civilisations? How many intelligent beings? How many whatever?

Bringing it back to human scale - what's the chances of me being able
to image this using my amateur equipment 20 years from now? Don't
laugh! Can't today's amateurs rival Palomar (and film) of 20 years ago
using 12" scopes and CCD's?

Beats