We had a major event tonight. We attained what we in the astronomy field call "First Light", ie the first real images from our telescope that are actually useful.
We've been having some real problems over the last few days to get the telescope operational and at one point we actually thought that it wasn't going to be working at all. So tonight is a real good night for us and I'm really excited about the whole project again. Now I can't wait for the telescope to start it's real observing and the hunt for planets :)
Here are the two most awesome images on the planet at the moment.
The first one is a picture of the centre of the Milky Way and the second one actually shows the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (our two closest galaxies). The Milky Way was a 15 second exposure and the LMC and SMC was a 2 minute exposure.
For some really large versions of these two photos have a look at http://keltsouth.pbwiki.com/Sutherland+Deployment
Cheers
PS. I'll post another monster post some time tomorrow to fill in all the details about the last week or so. Lots of things have happened and I'll most certainly try and bore you :)
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