Wednesday 13th of June 2007 | Mike Spicer
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SOME LOVELY LITTLE FLOWERS
Even using a large-format Digital Rebel imaging chip on the Nexstar 11, one could still obtain some pretty little images of planetary nebulas through the very still air over Hamilton on Tuesday night, here is an example, even after reduction to 450 pixcels wide in jpg format for posting here, do you recognize it as the Cat’s Eye nebula NGC 6543?:
Here’s an old favourite in a 30 second image, same scope and camera:
Finally, here’s a pretty number, recognize it as NGC 6210 in Hercules?
