Patrick, Don't freeze! But that's a great shot. -- Joe --- On Thu, 11/25/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] M-31_V-1 To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, November 25, 2010, 3:16 AM After seeing the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMuaDJQSvdE) from BYU's West Mountain Observatory shown at this month's SLAS meeting of the Cepheid variable discovered by Edwin Hubble I thought I'd see if I could get a picture of it.
Turned out to be not that hard with it showing up on a single 2' exposure. But I went ahead and shot five 2' shots and added them together to make it easier to see. Results posted here:
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=68&g2_page=6
Not as fancy as the Y's video but now I'm thinking that since it did show up so easily, maybe I ought to try a video myself. 'Vourse what do you want to bet I just happened to catch it at its peak brightness tonight and within a few days it'll be gone.
Stay tuned. :)
patrick
p.s. As I closed up the observatory the thermometer read -15.3 C. Brrrrrr... _______________________________________________ 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