NIGHT OVER ONTARIO
These photos were taken by Lynn Hilborn of Grafton, Ontario.
Pictures have appeared on the cover and inside editions of SkyNews magazine and in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine, and as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
“ Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,”
W.B.Yeats
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Read MorePictures have appeared on the cover and inside editions of SkyNews magazine and in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine, and as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
“ Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,”
W.B.Yeats
CHECK OUT MY eBOOK " TIME MACHINE " available for $4.99 at Apple iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/id583664888 A Book Review of "Time Machine" http://tinyurl.com/pafwykv
Soft and Hardcover book available at http://www.blurb.ca/b/4038933-time-machine
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See blog of this picture by the Editor of ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/daves-universe/archive/2013/05/28/amateur-astronomer-captures-gravitational-streamers-from-galaxy.aspx
Splinter Galaxy NGC5907 with extended stellar tidal stream - 21.5 hours of exposure. TEC 140 @f7 and FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters. Taken by Lynn Hilborn,WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario on May 1,3,4,5, 2013.
An extended stellar tidal stream around spiral galaxy NGC5097, the resukt of a galactic merger with a smaller satellite galaxy. Extremely faint !
Lum 1x1 24x10min.
Lum 2x2 28x30min
RGB 2x2 7x10min each.