Adam's Latest View of the Universe:
M11: Concentric Contemplation
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released 8/19/2015
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The intersection of art and science springs from imaginative curiosity. What happens if the camera is rotating at the back of the telescope while capturing a picture of a beautiful star cluster? Each star will trace a circle around the field- literal deep space star trails! By painting star light circularly, the colors of stars are much easier to discern. In addition, many stars are at the same radial distance from the center and as the camera turns their light is mixed producing wonderful hues of a stellar rainbow. The spacing of the circles also clearly shows the density of the stars and how quickly that increases towards the center of the cluster.
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- Optics 32-inch Schulman Telescope (RCOS)
- Camera SBIG STX16803 CCD Camera
- Filters Astrodon Gen II
- Date August 18th 2015
- Location Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
- Exposure RGB = 300 : 300 : 300 seconds
- Acquisition Astronomer Control Panel (ACP), Maxim DL/CCD (Cyanogen), FlatMan XL (Alnitak)
- Processing CCDStack, Photoshop CC, PixInsight
- Credit Line & Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona