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[AJ Crayon <acrayon@xxxxxxx>]

Jon, wow what a magnificent image.  Keep up the great work.

Clear skies,
aj
---- Jon Christensen <jonc97@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Hi All,
> Here's an image where I combined the tremendous resolution achievable with my 
> long focal length telescope (F/9) with the wonderful light gathering 
> capability of my short focal length telescope (F/3).  It's a photo of M42 
> that consists of deep color data taken with the F/3 scope and luminance data 
> taken with the F/9 scope.  I had to use a mosaic of images to create the 
> luminance image because one shot by itself only captured a small area of the 
> nebula.  The 100% sized image is 35 megapixels and the tif format file 100 
> megabytes.  My computer had a hard time coping with this large an image.  The 
> data was acquired over 3 nights in December and January.  There really is a 
> lot going on in this nebula when you take a close look!
> 
> http://www.christensenastroimages.com/nebula/m42_2007.htm
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> Regards,
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> Jon Christensen
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