Here is a colour and negative B&W version of the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic.  Over 4 years in the making so far, this image stretches from M58 in the bottom left hand corner right up to M100 in the top right.  Each image measures 4.42 x 5.16 degrees where the diameter of a full Moon is just half a degree (like the Sun).  The image comprises over 10 individual frames and a total imaging time well in excess of 40-hours.  I will not be taking such large fields of view with the Hyperstar III in future, that’s the whole purpose of putting the mini-WASP array together.  However it is very satisfying to see such a big field of view at the relatively high resolution of 2.85 arc seconds per pixel.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 31st, 2012 at 2:03 pm and is filed under Hyperstar and SXVF-M25C. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.