These two images were posted on the SBIGUSER list by Ed Grafton of Houston, Texas. Before the days of the Hubble I doubt that photos this good had been taken from any Earth-based observatory no matter how large, yet these were taken with a plain Celestron C14 and a simple ST6 camera. See http://www.ghgcorp.com/egrafton/s11-19.jpg http://www.ghgcorp.com/egrafton/11-07-01.jpg Wil Milan http://www.astrophotographer.com/ "The heavens declare the glory of God And the firmament proclaims His handiwork." -- Psalm 19:1 --- This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. If you wish to be removed from this list, send E-mail to: AZ-Observing-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, with the subject: unsubscribe. The list's archive is at: //www.freelists.org/archives/az-observing This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal messages. Thanks.