I thought I would throw this in. Here is an astro image taken from the middle of Berlin with a 10" Meade ARC at f/5.1, SXV-H9 camera, 34x5 minutes. http://www.spacebanter.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2301&d=1231880615 Not as stunning but very cool looking still I think. On 2011-04-21 14:00, Jay Eads wrote:
To celebrate the Hubble Telescopes 21st anniversary of its deployment into space on April 24th, NASA released this press release with a new wonderful image found here at
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1107/
Make sure you click on the picture to get the full affect of these two interacting and in the case of UGC 1813, weirdly shaped, and interacting pair of galaxies. Just thought it was rather cool in this season of the galaxies.