Wow

Jan 28th

Yesterday and today have been pretty rough. We Finally got an idea of what we needed to do for our posters yesterday and people have been scrambling since to get it done today. On a better note, its Amazing seeing all the people pictures. Its not just the finished product Im impressed with, I mean Entire the processing and what they had to do! Seeing how the images Looked to what they are now...WOW!

Anywho, we are currently playing around with the printer and Not winning most of the time. We take our small victories while we can :P And now have to go....hasta luego

Imaging the Fox Fur Nebula

Here is the final image of the Fox Fur Nebula, the object I imaged the last night at Mt. Bigelow. I'm very pleased with how it turned out, especially because we had to learn the software (MaxIm) during the process. I still think that actually controlling the telescope was much more fun than stacking / making the image! It's a lot less tedious to me!

Processed Images

Here are some processed images from the telescope run of NGC 2419 Globular Cluster in the galatic halo of the Milky Way galaxy. ENJOY!

This is a combined image from the red, blue, and visible light filters.

This is a pseudo color over of the previous image

This a RGB combine image

This is simply an inversion of the light intensity of the previous image. It helps to better see the individual stars.

Ending the trip in Arizona

Unfortunately, we had to end our stay in Arizona. Thankfully though, we had much success observing! The last few days we were in Tucson, we visited Kitt Peak which was really amazing. I think it would be a lot of fun to observe on one of those telescopes. We all went out for dinner at Delectables and the food was amazing! The last night there we all hung out and shared stories. All in all, this trip was great! We had a safe flight back home... although the weather that greeted us was horrible!