Cosmic Photons Astrophotography : December 2008

Every day our eyes catch the light of our memories – time spent with family, the journey to work, a special holiday, a beautiful sunset or a dark starlit night. Each image captured is a picture drawn in light – a photograph: only to be lost in our minds or forever forgotten. Nearly two hundred years ago a small group of amateur scientists achieved what had eluded mankind for centuries – the ability to capture a permanent record of an image seen by their own eyes – a moment in time frozen onto a surface. They had discovered Photography. They were the ‘Catchers of the Light’.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

M81and M82

W.O FLT 110 4''TMB flattener
SBIG ST10XME

W.O ZS80 ED_ DSI color
Synta EQ6 Pro

Total exposure 245 min LRGB

22x5min Lum 9x5min each color

Kallithea
Athens
Hellas