|
What can you image in the suburbs of a light-polluted city like Bristol? |
|
|
|
|
Written by Administrator
|
|
Monday, 15 October 2007 |
|
Surprisingly, it is possible to successfully image deep-sky objects. An excellent example of this can be found here. (Images taken with an Audine CCD camera in a suburb of Toulouse, Ramonville Saint-Agne). The CCD camera we will use only images light intensity, but placing a series of colour filters (in a "filter-wheel") in front of the camera enables full-colour images to be obtained. Click here to see what can be imaged from a town (Bellevue) five miles away from Seattle, USA. (Images by Mark de Regt, taken with an LX200 10", SBig ST7-E CCD camera and CFW-8 colour filter wheel). Most of the success of these astronomers comes from much patience and skill in processing the raw images. Getting such amazing shots can sometimes take some time, but that is part of the art of astronomy.
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, 15 October 2007 )
|
