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. _____________________________________________
Extremely nice, Tyler. I know it's not one of the most recent, but I particularly like the Dumbbell Nebula photo. It gives you more of a sense of the star exploding than any other I've seen. Thanks, Joe --- 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. _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
Thanks for taking time to look and comment, Joe. Tyler Allred _____________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:16 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] (no subject) Extremely nice, Tyler. I know it's not one of the most recent, but I particularly like the Dumbbell Nebula photo. It gives you more of a sense of the star exploding than any other I've seen. Thanks, Joe --- 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. _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
Absolutely gorgeous work as usual; the dark nebulae is stunning. I'm guessing others on the list are also wondering, how long did you have to wait for your AP? Does it live up to its "stellar" reputation? ;) Did you ever get a backyard observatory built? /R --- 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. _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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...190.2110T&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.
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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Thanks Rich. It's great to hear from you. I actually got the AP used, right here in SLC. It is in immaculate condition and lives up to its reputation in every way. When seeing conditions are good, the tight focus is simply unbelievable. I actually met with the contractor yesterday, and we will be pouring the 12'x16' concrete pad within the week. I will take loads of photos and add them to a new section on my website. I am really excited about the design of the building, which I have spent a lot of time on lately. It sure will be nice to roll the roof off and have everything waiting to go. This setting up and taking down every night is really time consuming (and back breaking as well!). I'll post a link when the pics of the work start rolling in. Cheers, Tyler _____________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Richard Tenney Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:18 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] (no subject) Absolutely gorgeous work as usual; the dark nebulae is stunning. I'm guessing others on the list are also wondering, how long did you have to wait for your AP? Does it live up to its "stellar" reputation? ;) Did you ever get a backyard observatory built? /R --- 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. _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
The October Scientific American argues that black stars more dense than neutron stars may form instead of black holes. Black holes are predicted by classical general relativity but do not take properly take into account quantum mechanics. A quantum effect called vacuum polarization may grow large enough to stop a hole forming and create a "black star" instead. Such a star would not have an event horizon but any energy emitted would be shifted far to the red and not show as visible light. A major problem with black holes is the loss of information that would occur violating a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics called unitarity. I have always been skeptical of singularities since in every other area of physics singularities mean a failure of the math or theory or both. When the theory predicts such things as infinite energy (the ultraviolet catastrophe) or singularities it usually means the theory needs to be modified.
I liked the cartoon with a Physicist writing long equations on the blackboard.As the solution he wrote "then a miracle happens".
My first contact with singularities was the idea that the Universe arose from a singularity, which seems to be something different than a Black Hole. I have gotten the impression that material being sucked into a black hole has been observed. I thought that was proof that Black Holes existed. The October Scientific American argues that black stars more dense than
neutron stars may form instead of black holes. Black holes are predicted by classical general relativity but do not take properly take into account quantum mechanics. A quantum effect called vacuum polarization may grow large enough to stop a hole forming and create a "black star" instead. Such a star would not have an event horizon but any energy emitted would be shifted far to the red and not show as visible light.
A major problem with black holes is the loss of information that would occur violating a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics called unitarity.
I have always been skeptical of singularities since in every other area of physics singularities mean a failure of the math or theory or both. When the theory predicts such things as infinite energy (the ultraviolet catastrophe) or singularities it usually means the theory needs to be modified.
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