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Skywatcher Mak-Newt vs Hubble


wimvb

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A few days ago, I got a link to this Hubble image in my news feed.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-glimpses-a-galactic-duo

I remembered that I imaged the Perseus galaxy cluster last November, so I had a look which part of the cluster the Hubble telesscope had targeted. Sure enough, it was in the frame of my image. With a little tinkering in PixInsight, I framed the Hubble fov in my wide field.

NASA can relax, a SkyWatcher Mak-Newt situated in Sweden is no threat to their school bus sized space telescope. Not even if said telescope developes a computer glitch. 😉

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3 hours ago, alan potts said:

Still a very nice image though isn't it, I dare say if you could lift the M/N above the atmosphere it may well improve on this.

Alan

Thanks, Alan. I am very pleased with it, although it needs more integration time. Maybe next season.

Iwould need one serious piece of pier extension to get my scope that high. Or maybe rent a few sqm on the platform of the space elevator which China is planning? 😁

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