Thanks Rich. Hale Bopp was something to behold! I wish I had been taking images back then. What a target that would have been. My first real comet experience was with comet West. I will never forget seeing that thing stretched out across about 1/2 of the sky. It was truly incredible. Cheers, Tyler _____________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Ilove2getSpam@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:44 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] (no subject) Tyler, I can hardly begin to appreciate your work. It is absolutely stunning!!! It is hard to believe such photo were captured via an amateur ground based observatory. Of course, there are so many talented astronomers on this list server! The closest I've come to such pleasure was back in high school when I was involved in a pilot "Sky Explorer" program funded by the NSF. At that time, Comet Hale Bopp was dominating the heavens (Relative to Earth, of course). I just went looking for some of our work, which had been archived on a website for years. Seems like the website is no more. However, I did find a bibliographic record <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997AAS...190.2110 T&db_key=AST&link_type=ABSTRACT&high=4aba4b6b7c01926>for the program on the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System which is maintained by Harvard and Smithsonian. How one would ever use such a database is beyond me, but that besides the point! Good work Tyler and Thank You!!! -Rich
--- On Sat, 9/19/09, Tyler Allred <tylerallred@earthlink.net> wrote:
From: Tyler Allred <tylerallred@earthlink.net> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] (no subject) To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 3:53 PM
Hi all.
I have been very busy lately imaging lots of fun and interesting objects. I have posted many new items to my personal astrophotography website, including dark nebulae in Cygnus, the newly discovered "soap bubble" and Crescent nebula with its OIII shell, the wild duck cluster, the Elephants Trunk, SH2-190, a new M13, the Cocoon, and more. I picked up an AP130 and have been using it recently for my imaging. I am very happy with the scope, although I will need a flattener to get the most out of it. Take a look
if
you get a chance.
Clear Skies to you all,
Tyler
Here is a link to the "Latest Images" page on my website. Click the images a couple of times to see the full versions.
http://71.18.228.62/gpage8.html
Cheers.
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