Hello friends,

it seems it has been quite a while since I posted an image to the
group.
This is mainly due to a very annoying mixture of bad weather and
little time for the beloved hobby.
…cloudy nights and overcast days give the chance to use ones time for
different things:
Educational talks on astro-related events, astro-education in public
schools and more importantly, getting some interesting projects on
wheels like raising people's sensitivity to the IYA09, light-
pollution
and dark-sky per se.
Politians are hard to convince about things that really make sense
for
all of us (and not so much for the political party…),…the only
argument they tend to accept is: money,…and introducing
low-power-consuming laps and street-lights seems to be the very key…
but this is really OT here…sorry.
Next summer we (the ars electronica center in linz and me) intend to
let the „city-fathers" turn out all „un-essential" lights at night
(well, that must be something like 99%...) around the main-place in
town (250.000 inhab) and conduct a public huge star-party for each
and
everyone. Should be cool!

A couple days ago I was lucky to find time AND clear skies…it took me
a while to figure how to run all the cables between the scope,
filterwheel, electric focuser, and stuff…*g*
Honestly – after more than 8 weeks of „abstinence" in astrofotografic
terms I was just about to loose my routine here…
Well, here we are with a version of ngc 891, imaged with my „big boy"
the 9" tmb apo und decent conditions.

I hope looking at the image gives you a good time *g*

All data is on the website.
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891.html

here is the link to the full-size frame:
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891-full.html

thanks a lot for taking a look – and I apologize for the looong post.
Best to you all and tell all the people being your reach about IYA
and
what it's all about.
Dietmar