[AZ-Observing] Re: APOD May 26th...

>>Comments from someone at ASU suggested they thought that Jon had 
possibly "superimposed" his photo onto a Hubble Space Telescope image!  

It's true.  I circulated that photo to the School of Earth and Space 
Exploration the day Jon Posted it.  People responded with amazement and 
appreciation. It is clearly more spectacular than the Hubble photo.  One chap 
unaware of what a dedicated amateur can do with a modest aperture appeared to 
be in denial. He will need to get over it. Seeing is believing!  

I absolutely love this photo.  I also think Jon's photo of the Orion nebula is 
one of the best ever; the "trapezium toward one side of a cavity in a molecular 
cloud" aspect comes through beautifully.

Way to go, Jon! 
 
Paul Knauth


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Sent: Tue 5/26/2009 2:43 PM
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: APOD May 26th...
 
What's perhaps even more interesting to us here in the Phoenix area, is 
that the photons used for this image were captured nearby, at the Vekol 
Road observing area.  (Re: Jon Christensen, message posted on 
Az-observing 04-30-09).

Comments from someone at ASU suggested they thought that Jon had 
possibly "superimposed" his photo onto a Hubble Space Telescope image!  
(Which of course it most certainly was NOT !)

Congrats and compliments to Jon on his fine work and perseverance.  (The 
image represents a total of 580 minutes exposure time!)

Gene Lucas
(17250)




David M. Douglass wrote:
> The APOD picture for May 26th, (posted as of about 20 minutes ago)..
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> Whirlpool Galaxy Deep Field 
> Credit & Copyright: Jon Christensen 
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