ASTRO: M104

Another from back last spring with the 6" f/4. For some reason I used
10 minute frames for this which, at f/4 totally blew out the nucleus. I
have no deblooming tools so couldn't begin to process it with the
limited tools I did have. Now with Photoshop I gave it another try. It
took me most of last night's football game but think I got rid of it.
After 3 hours I didn't even try to remove the blooms on the stars.

6" f/4, 3x10 minutes enlarged to 150%, ST-7, Paramount ME

Rick

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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Rick,

if you post pictures like this you soon will get emails from UFO-freaks ;-)
Be prepared that they won't believe that this is a galaxy.

Stefan

"Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Another from back last spring with the 6" f/4. For some reason I used
10 minute frames for this which, at f/4 totally blew out the nucleus. I
have no deblooming tools so couldn't begin to process it with the
limited tools I did have. Now with Photoshop I gave it another try. It
took me most of last night's football game but think I got rid of it.
After 3 hours I didn't even try to remove the blooms on the stars.

6" f/4, 3x10 minutes enlarged to 150%, ST-7, Paramount ME

Rick

--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

When I was a supervisor at Hyde Memorial Observatory I seemed to attract
all the kooks, UFO, creationist, world will flip over due to tidal
forces from aligned planets, CIA killed Spirit so it wouldn't reveal (A)
The CIA base on Mars (B) There are Martians or other aliens there (C)
Whatever it is we aren't supposed to know about. Etc.

After over 27 years I've heard them all! But they can't understand how
I could be out under the stars all my life and never see a UFO. One
night our club held its monthly star party only a mile from where a
whole group saw a UFO and since nearly 40 saw it, it made the front page
headline for the day. Yet none of us at the star party noticed a thing
at the same time. Must be a special UFO that only appears when you've
consumed more than enough beer.

Rick

Stefan Lilge wrote:

Rick,

if you post pictures like this you soon will get emails from UFO-freaks
;-) Be prepared that they won't believe that this is a galaxy.

Stefan

"Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...

Another from back last spring with the 6" f/4. For some reason I used
10 minute frames for this which, at f/4 totally blew out the nucleus. I
have no deblooming tools so couldn't begin to process it with the
limited tools I did have. Now with Photoshop I gave it another try. It
took me most of last night's football game but think I got rid of it.
After 3 hours I didn't even try to remove the blooms on the stars.

6" f/4, 3x10 minutes enlarged to 150%, ST-7, Paramount ME

Rick

--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

In article ,
Rick Johnson wrote:

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One night our club held its monthly star party only a mile from where
a whole group saw a UFO and since nearly 40 saw it, it made the front
page headline for the day. Yet none of us at the star party noticed
a thing at the same time. Must be a special UFO that only appears
when you've consumed more than enough beer.

You were all so traumatized by the incident that you blocked your
memories of it. Just find the right hypnotist and they can be restored.


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Odysseus