Hi Chris, A great shot! I have it up as my desktop picture so I can admire it for awhile. Now for the questions borne of Novice ignorance and curiousity. On your website there are a couple of statements that I'm pondering over: "its inclination is less than 1 degree and is face on to our line of sight." How is this actually calculated and/or figured out? Do all spiral galaxies have a certain degree of "roundness" so any amount of "obliqueness" can be corrolated into degrees of "tilt" or other? "Hordes of faint background galaxies dot this image, most being a leaden yellow color, dimmed from their great distance through intergalactic dust." Is this dust causing the "yellowing" galactic or interstellar dust collecting around the galaxy itself in the plane of or within the gravitational field of that galaxy? Or an unrelated dark nebula somewhere between here and there? And / or is this caused because of the general "dustiness" of the Universe? Jimmy Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Schur" <comets133@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Rik Hill" <rhill24@xxxxxxx>; "Az-Observing List" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mike Bakich Astronomy" <mbakich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Adam Block" <ngc1535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Bob Erdmann" <boberdmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Chuck Burton" <cburton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Fraser Cain" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Dominic Cantin" <dominiccantin@xxxxxxxx>; "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx>; "EVAC list" <evac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Jerry Bonnell APOD)" <bonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Albert Levy" <alevy1@xxxxxxxxxx>; "mark" <dicroidium@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Thelma/John Ofarrell" <thelmaann@xxxxxxx>; "Tony Phillips" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "ARTHUR PICCINATI" <apiccinati@xxxxxxxxx>; "Randy Peterson" <rgpeterson@xxxxxxx>; "Rick Rotramel AZ77)" <rick.rotramel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Robert Nemiroff APOD" <nemiroff@xxxxxxx>; "S&T Gallery" <gallery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Arlene Schur" <2arlene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Dawn Schur" <dschur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Lon Shelton" <bitsylon@xxxxxxxxx>; "Paul Tierney" <palaeopaul@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Vince" <ne7y@xxxxxxx>; "Peter Wehinger" <pwehinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:56 Subject: [AZ-Observing] M101 for the month of May HI all, It took all month to image this one, due to clouds, wind, and giving it lots of exposure time. Anyway, I think youll like the lastest image of the Pinwheel galaxy with our newer ST10xme camera. It does 10x better job on galaxies than the older ST8i with the same setup and exposures! http://www.schursastrophotography.com/ccdimagepages/m101-3.html Comments? Chris Take Care, Chris Astro: http://www.schursastrophotography.com Robotics: http://www.schursastrophotography.com/roboticsmain.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.8.0/817 - Release Date: 5/24/2007 4:01 PM -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.