did u get any photo from swan with ur own telescope?
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No hope when climate conditions improve here I get a good pic\n\n(cited below)Messier 17, (NGC 6618) Swan or Omega Nebula, is a very bright nebulous area at the northern extreme of Sagittarius, close by the border with Serpens Cauda. It is also variously known as the Swan Nebula (from its inverted appearance), the Omega Nebula, or the Horseshoe Nebula. The central bar-like mass of emission nebulosity has a very high surface brightness and is easily seen in binoculars. The outer parts are much fainter and extend over a comparatively wide area. Unusually there are no obvious bright stars fuelling the vigorous ionization of gases, but it has been suggested that there are hot stars embedded deep within the nebulous region. M17 is about 5,000 light years distant. It was probably first seen by the Swiss astronomer P.L. de Cheseaux in the spring of 1764 and was found and catalogued independently by Charles Messier in June of the same year.\n\nDate: 15/06/02 (R Luminance only: G, B were from 14/06/02)\nLocation: Southern France\nConditions: calm, transparency=8, seeing=9 (zero Jetstream)\nOptics: RCOS Ritchey-Chretien 12.5" f/9 working at f/6.7 with AP x.75 focal reducer.\nMount: AP 900 GTO on Portable Pier\nCamera: SBIG ST-8E / CFW-8\nGuiding: Integral ST-8E guiding chip controlled via MaximCCD\nExposure: High resolution R/RGB (no binning): 40/40:40:60 minutes\n\nProcessing: Image acquisition, calibration, combining, and DDP were applied using Maxim DL. Deconvolution was applied using AIP. Registration of Luminance and RGB images done using Registar, with and final image adjustments applied in Photoshop.
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have u tried google or yahoo images search?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keck_telescope
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Wow! Thanks for the "heads up".  I wasn't aware of that.  I'm in Florida, so around 2pm here I should be able to set up some equipment so that the whole office can see it.  We have a lot of optical equipment here so it'll be a great opportunity.\n\nFor Jessi:\nYou can take a telescope and point it towards the sun. (Don't look through the telescope)  Then project the sun's image onto a blank sheet of paper and focus until you see the sun's image.  You'll be able to see sunspots and Mercury passing from right to left along the bottom side of the image.  It should last from about 2pm edt until sunset.
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Sorry I can't help ya dude, BUT I'm a big time fan of Orion's products.  I own a 10 x 50 OUTSIDER from Orion, and the optics are out of this world.  Extreme clarity, even around the edges.  I haven't found another binocular that can top it!  I've always wondered about those simply gorgeous views of wide stellar swaths!  I'm not endorsing here, just stating a fact Orion has quality equipment.
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Did you make a tiny adjustment to it without saving it if it was an image? I don't really know the answer to this but I'm just trying to make a suggestion.
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Yes I have, about 8 years ago. It was a ufo, until we managed to identify it as a Sirius satellite, the 'cigar shape' was the light reflected off it's solar panels. Spent 2 days worrying about an alien invasion!!
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Ask mom or dad if you can borrow their camera for your project.  You need a camera that will let you set the shutter to open for say an hour.  ON a clear night go outside in a very dark place and place the camera on a table open the shutter to take the picture and wait.  The Picture you will see will be of the stars only they should show signs of having tails..  This will show the amount of distance the planet moved and rotated in relation to the fixed point ( the stars )  It will also give you a cool picture.  Good luck.
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I think I saw this advertised in the Jan or Feb issue of Astronomy magazine.  Not sure there is a website for the contest.  Good Luck.
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My favorite of the free ones is Celestia.\n\nhttp://www.shatters.net/celestia/\n\nyou can fly to any star and then center the view on our sun, Sol.  By turning on constellation boundaries, you see what constellation it is in--and how badly mangled the constellations become when you go far away!  It has some extra solar planets modeled too (generic planets, since we don't know what they really look like).\n\nSo if you go to this site and download and run Celestia, you can do the following:\n\nclick Navigation at the top, then goto object.  Type Arcturus in the "Object" field and click "goto".  The way I have it set up, my screen is now all white (I'm TOO close to arcturus!).  I rotate my scroll wheel down to move back some to see the star better.  (HOME and END move forward and back if you have no scroll wheel).  Then, I click Navigation, then Select Sol to select our sun.  Then hit Navigation and Center Selection, and there's a teeny yellow dot in the center of the screen--that is the sun. It appears to be in the constellation Cetus (a really mangled barely-recognizable Cetus).
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Have you checked Space.com?
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http://www.ehow.com/how_17057_make-simple-telescope.html
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do you have any pictures of it? come on..show us
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Yes I have.........lol\nMy daughter wanted one for xmas\n☺
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No one that I know of has been by Remus. This little moon was \ndiscovered in August of 2005 and as of yet has only been visited \nby an astronomer´s telescope. Sorry!
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Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered and directly imaged a small brown dwarf star, 50 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting with a planet around a Sun-like star. Such an arrangement has never before been seen but might be common, the scientists say, leading to solar systems with distorted planetary orbits.\n\nKevin Luhman of Penn State University is the lead author on a report describing this discovery, which will be published in The Astrophysical Journal. The discovery concerns a class of the coldest brown dwarfs, called T dwarfs.\n\n\nThe detailed research paper on T dwarf - Ref\nhttp://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Luhman9-2006-2.htm
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I had my 16yr old bf take photos of me which he was developing himself at school. Apparently, they didn't turn out.........I still wonder where they turned up or which magazine I starred in!!!