Just a thought...

Isn't it just AMAZING what people are able to do lately?

As the pictures keep getting better, it seems that people are trying their best to IMPROVE or BEAT some already great shots, and most are coming up with truely AWESOME work!


Guys, whatever you are doing, keep it up!

Glad ot be part of such a great group of people!



Ivan

Ivan,

I can't agree more!! I love seeing what others are doing and it pushes me to try harder...to go outside when it's cold not knowing what can turn out.

I think it would be fun to take a look at the images in the June 2003 S&T article about webcamming and see how the current crop stacks up. I'll bet those images that were jaw dropping at the time will look almost normal now.

The Meade catalogue shows an image taken by Damian Peach of Saturn with a 12" showing the little south polar cap, and they said it was an extremely difficult object to photograph, it's only 1200 miles in diameter. Yet I see it plainly on images from Wes and others, and I think I can even see it on one or two of my Saturn images as well.

I saw another challenge. In a 2002 issue of S&T (I forget which issue), they show a picture of the mon shot with an 8.2 meter scope where they claim to see objects to I thought 130 meters across, maybe less. I think it would be fun to image that area and see how much of the 8.2 meter's image we can see!!

Paul

Recently I look at planetary pictures in 15 years old book, taken from different professional observatories using HUGE telescopes. Nothing even close to today's pics over here. And healty competition among us is very sufficient engine to push quality behind limits of yesterday.
Clear skies to everyone!