Hi Joe and anyone else who is interested, It's such a nice night tonight that once I finished with my regular imaging I turned to M-87 again. This time I shot 20 one minute guided exposures with the clear filter. And, unlike the other night, there is no Moon in the sky. And judging from the images, the seeing is much better too. Again, the jet is there but just barely. However, I've a feeling that someone willing to put in the time to stack the images and then do a bit of processing might be able to make a better shot. Anyone care to give it a go? Let me know if you are and I'll zip and post tonight's images along with a master dark and master flat for download. patrick On 24 Mar 2011, at 01:06, Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi Patrick, After stretching I could see it. Is this the lum or red image? Also, what was the exposure? Was it taken with your 14-inch? I'm starting to think I shouldn't even try. Thanks, Joe
--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Jet in M-87 To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 12:38 AM Hi Joe (and anyone else who might be interested),
I've posted a zip file containing the raw, dark and flat images here:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/joe.zip
You'll really need to stretch the image to see the jet.
North is up, east to the left.
patrick