FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Check Out These "Backyard" Images...

[Greg Askins <gregaskins@xxxxxxx>]

Here are a brief sampling of some other objects that were taken from  
his suburban backyard (not Yosemite or Fremont Peak State Park):

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/m31_the_andromeda_galaxy_page.htm

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ced214_emission_nebula_page.htm

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ic1795_fsq_emission.htm

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ic1795_ha_o3_page.htm

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ic1805_emission_nebula_page.htm

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ 
ic5068_emission_nebula_in_halpha_page.htm

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ic5070_pelican_nebula_color_page.htm

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ 
m17_swan_nebula_emission_line_page.htm


Anyway, I found it amazing what technology and a lot of effort can  
produce from suburban skies.

Greg Askins
Chandler, AZ



On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 10:50 AM, Brian Skiff wrote:

>>>  ...from his "backyard in the San Francisco Bay Area, which suffers  
>>> from
>>>  typical urban light pollution".
>>>  Pretty amazing images from a non-dark site.
>
>      But in the material for the image itself at the photographer's  
> site,
> it says the iamges were taken at a place near Yosemite (i.e. fairly  
> dark)
> and at Fremont Peak State Park, which seems to be the Silicon Valley
> equivalent of Vekol Road, medium-dark, specially if there's fog  
> covering
> the urban areas.  This is all narrow-band stuff (i.e. avoiding light-
> pollution lines) on what is after all one of the highest  
> surface-brightness
> nebulae in the sky.  I would commend the guy not for getting something
> like this from less-than-perfect sites, but the large amount of time
> both exposing and processing the data.  See details here:
>
> http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ 
> m8_hourglass_region_emission_page.htm
>
> \Brian
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