Beautiful image Tom, that fish eye lens does a killer job! Clear Skies, Chris Schur's Web Portal: http://www.schursastrophotography.com --- On Sat, 6/4/11, Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [AZ-Observing] A Couple More from Chile > To: AZ-Observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, evac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:50 AM > Due to freak weather in the Atacama, > we had only 3 1/2 clear nights out of 6. The real > treat was meeting up with Felipe Mac Auliffe, an employee of > the European Southern Observatory, who took us to the APEX > radio telescope facility in the Andes. In order to > minimize water vapor, the enemy of astronomy at millimeter > wavelengths, the site is in a plain at 16,000 feet > (!). The completed APEX telescope overlooks the much > larger ALMA array, which is under construction. This > view overlooks the Chajnantor site of the ALMA array. > > http://www.pbase.com/image/135271740 > > > Rather than visually observing with a 24-inch scope, we > rented a 4-inch refractor that enabled some piggyback > images. This is a single 4-minute exposure through a > fisheye lens of the Milky Way at midnight. > > http://www.pbase.com/image/135271433 > > Tom > -- > See message header for info on list archives or > unsubscribing, and please > send personal replies to the author, not the list. > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.