Here are the fruits of my labors from last night. The pictures were taken with a CCD camera mounted on a 16" telescope, and I played with the images in, er, some program that can combine three or more images from the various filters on the telescope. The picture on the upper right corner is what the nebula actually looks like when you combine blue, red, and green visual light filters.
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wow, that is really cool! i would have guessed the top left is all them put together.. oh well. i love space stuff. probably why i have star trek next generation tivo'd. :P anyway, cool stuff. rock on.
Thanks!
Yeah, that's what you'd think. But the Ring Nebula is reddish-orangish-yellow, with a web of blue in the middle (you can't see the blue on my picture, but if you look at stuff from the Hubble you can).
I didn't know you could see cool stuff with a small telescope. everything i've ever seen through a small(ish) telescope has just been brighter versions of the same white dots i can usually see.
Well, the telescope was a 16-incher (fairly large, compared to what I'm used to), and the pictures were taken with exposures ranging from 35-90 seconds. Just looking through the telescope, the nebula was sort of a fuzzy gray glob. Jupiter and whatnot look cool through the telescope, but deep-space objects take time to expose into a useful picture.
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