Full resolution on Flickr Published on Bad astronomy blog About 2 years ago I worked on a mosaic of Messier 106, made using images of the Hubble Space Telescope. Recently I found some new data sources on the internet, including some huge telescope databases with data from professional telescopes. That’s when I decided to see …
Recently I was allowed to using a remote Takahashi FSQ106 in Australia to do some testing of the equipment. Using this setup with a SBIG STL11000 color ccd images were made of the Eta Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) and Omega Centauri. Eta carina: Exposure: 5x600s Omega Centauri: Exposure: 14x300s
Mosaic taken remotely with the fsq106 and sbig stl11000 one shot color ccd camera at the siding spring observatory in New South Wales, Australia. This image was taken over 3 consecutive days and consists of 4 panels. Each panel was made of 5 images of 15 minutes. So total effective exposure is 1.25 hours and …