Nice work Joe! --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Hi Friends, I just uploaded some photos from a session early Tuesday morning at the Wedge Overlook. They are of NGC 253, the huge galaxy in Sculptor, and the Flame Nebula in the Orion vicinity. I've admired 253 for a very long time. But because it's so far south it's only visible from our region around this time of year, and I never got a view of it before. The black and white photo is a bit of a panorama with two photos, but the galaxy got too low or went behind clouds or something before I could get views of the left-most part of the galaxy. When I was taking one of a number of color exposures a meteor seems to have flashed past, during the red exposure, and that left a bright red streak. I have uploaded that too, though I wasn't intending to show individual color exposurs -- the other view is a stack. Also I uploaded an image of part of the Flame Nebula. To compare its size, look on page 71 of the latest Astronomy Magazine, lower picture, where you can see the Flame above the Horsehead.
My views are posted on our Utah Astronomy Gallery at:
http://www.utahastronomy.com/view_album.php?page=5
The night got intensely cold, and for one of the few times during a photo expedition, I quit before dawn and tried to warm up.
Best wishes, Joe
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