Not a composite image!

Started by mclemens, 03/21/2003 10:11AM
Posted 03/21/2003 10:11AM Opening Post
The CTIO 4 meter Blanco telescope, silhouetted against the Magellanic Clouds (at left) and the Milky Way, as seen from Cerro Tololo in Chile. This is not a composite image. It was taken by Roger Smith using a 2048x2048 scientific CCD which has much higher sensitivity than photographic film, revealing greater detail in exposures short enough (20 seconds) to eliminate star trails. The CCD, normally used on the telescope pictured, was temporarily mated to a Zeiss Distagon 40 mm f/4 lens by a "camera body" made in house. The only source of illumination is starlight.

Minimum credit line: Roger Smith/NOAO/AURA/NSF


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Posted 03/21/2003 02:03PM #1
Posted 03/21/2003 02:54PM #2
Hi Mike,

That is an amazing image , I am now using it as
my desk top , assuming it is Okay to do so .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins
Posted 03/21/2003 03:53PM #3
IMPRESSIVE!
A truely beautiful view... WOW!


Thanks!


Ivan
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Posted 03/21/2003 05:31PM #4
Yeah! That is totally sweet! Man, I wish that I had enough dough for a 2048x2048 back illuminated CCD.

Greg

"Though parted by a gulf more impassable than any sea, the telescope lets us traverse what otherwise had been barred and lands us at last above the shores we went forth to seek. Real the journey is, though incorporeal in kind. Since the seeing strange sights is the essence of all far wanderings, it is as truly tavel so the eye arrive as if the body kept it company." Pervcival Lowell