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A couple of weeks ago I posted an LRGB image of the Eagle Nebula. Since then I've been wanting to explore the "Pillars of Creation" a bit more. Ideally, I would have captured this object with a whole slew of different filters, but the sky has not been cooperating. Therefore, I had to pick ...

Nice catch, Bill!! Glad to see you took advantage of that rare, dark night. Thanks for keeping us all up-to-date with these current comets.

Steve

Mark, Well done! You seem to have your focus and tracking very fine tuned and that is a large part of the battle. I'm guessing that because unmodified DSLR's are more blue sensitive than red sensitive, that the billowing red clouds of M8 were a bit compromised? Even so, both of these Messier Objects...

Bill,

Those are McDonald's wrappers in the water, not stars.

Well, well....this certainly turned into an interesting little thread. I think that we ALL have been a bit too star-deprived and will amuse ourselves with just about anything. I took that 50/50 super-imposed compilation and cleaned it up a bit. First, I tried to center the cluster on the foreground ...

Ah, yes, I see it now...

But I cannot tell where the ducks end and the stars begin.

You know, for years and years I never understood the 'wild duck' nickname that was given to this cluster. I just didn't get it. It was Admiral Smythe, who logged in July of 1835 that "This object, which somewhat resembles a flight of wild ducks in shape, is a gathering of minute stars, with a p...

Yes, it was a close battle between the Red Sox and Yankees on Sunday night. I was glued to the TV set until I took a peek at the sky thru the window and saw....STARS!!! Wait a minute...this was NOT part of the forecast. I scanned some quick overhead satellite images on the internet and saw that I ha...

Well I don't know about you'all, but this stretch of cloudy weather has me mighty depressed. WHAT is with the weather pattern around here lately. When I was a kid, I remember that the summer used to feature sunshine and an occasional CLEAR NIGHT. Anyways, in an attempt to add something to this dorma...

I agree!! The close pairs are only two-point-something arc seconds apart. It is remarkable that you were able to split them cleanly. Heck, I could kick a field goal between 'em!