Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> For fun you might also try plate-solving your image at
>
> http://nova.astrometry.net/upload

I submitted the star field without the galaxy or the grid plane.  (The galaxy's
overexposed core obscured several stars which seem quite spurious to me.)  It
returned "Success," but now I have a 529 KB text file that I don't know how to
interpret.

I don't know what to make of all those stars around the middle of the galaxy;
only one bright star shows up in photos.  I'll likely screen them out in the
final image.

> Also, if you haven't seen it yet you will like the 120 hour
> exposure of amateur astronomer Rolf Olsen
>
>
http://www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Centaurus-A-Extreme-Deep-Field

WHOA!

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