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After the success of my first galaxies, the next night I headed out again, new target and tried longer exposures, and pretty much used up the camera battery on the one target taking around 60 x 120s exposures. After stacking them and rejecting some fuzzies, and then tweaking I ended up with what I thought was a reasonable outcome!
M63 Sunflower Galaxy
It never ceases to amaze me at the shear numbers involved in these objects. Millions of lights away, thousands of light years in diameter and containing billions of stars.
One of my pals pointed out that of one of the pictures I caught the first night, when the light photon journey started travelling away from the target, dinosaurs were still on the Earth.  I had never really thought about it like that!
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I wonder how long of a red line you'd get if you took photos of a galaxy where Mars was also in view.
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It reminded me that I miss the APOD.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Sorry I'm not to that standard yet!
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I check it out every day : Astronomy Picture of the Day[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Wikipedia says, Quote: There is a general lack of large scale continuous spiral structure in visible light, so it is considered a flocculent galaxy.
I guess that's cause the galaxy has so much gas!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Love these photos, keep posting! My best effort was Jupiter with 3 moons, I'm still impressed every time I look at the 4 white dots on the black background!
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DaveAuld wrote: Sunflower Galaxy
Image the size of the seeds...
Nice picture!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Hopefully less 'educational' than yesterday. 
Matrix algebra was no help, so he ran online. (9)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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No.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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NON LINEAR?
(Anag of RAN ONLINE, could be Matrix Algebra)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes. Matrix/vector maths is known as linear algebra, so implicitly not suitable for nonlinear problems.
Monday's all yours.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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So, that's "less educational"?
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I was surprised yesterday by the lack of recognition of "i18n". I figured most CPers would have at least a vague notion of linear algebra being vectors, matrices etc.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I actually got this one rather quickly when I noticed that "ran online" could be anagrammed to something that included "linear". But it had already been solved while I was asleep. 
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Is not (3,6) more accurate than 9
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I think so (in fact (3-9) but it's a single word these days...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: single word these days...
 Living in a wrong part of world I guess. To be honest I have never seen as one word yet
cheers,
Super
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Damn, I really need to read new books. Mine is still circa 1974 and UK based English.
cheers,
Super
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Will the youngsters be called "Children of the Quarn"?
Where was it I put my coat?, I know it's here somewhere...
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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