Hubble vs C-14

"OG" wrote in message
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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Inspired by a comparison done earlier this month by Sean Walker, I
thought I'd go and retrieve one of this years Hubble opposition shots
to see how it compared against my C-14 capture of the 18th. I think
the C-14 held it's own

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/mars/20...Hubble-pbl.jpg
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Pete Lawrence

Superb photos Pete

I have on my bookshelf a copy of an 'Atlas of the Universe' from the
1970's, which contains what I suppose are some of the finest astro photos
available at the time. Even though they may have been taken with some of
the best telescopes of their age the quality of the images bears no
comparison with images taken using quite 'modest' equipment nowadays.

Truly, we seem to be living in a golden age of amateur astrophotography.

Yes, and also how amazing the difference between what can be seen with the
eye through even quite a reasonable telescope and the digital images that
are built up from CCD images like Pete's.

Last night I was showing my nephew how to view Mars through his telescope
but he was somewhat disappointed with what he could see directly!