A long way away.

[PlasticSpanner]

Here's a shot of Vega from a couple of nights ago whilst I was setting up the camera with the telescope. It's not particularly useful as an astrophotograph but I quite liked it.

Vega is a variable Star which means it varies in brightness over time (magnitude 0, which is very bright!) and is 25 light years away.

 

[LaFoto]

Wow!









By the way, the "star" in my new avatar is our dear old friend, the sun, as it looked like yesterday morning when it first rose.
You wouldn't have recognised it, hm?

 

[PlasticSpanner]

That's a nice warm shot of the Sun Corinna. :thumbup:

& Thanks for the idea of the Avatar too! We should do the avatar themes again!

 

[Antarctican]

Nice shots/avs you two!

 

[mentos_007]

whoa! I started to love Vega after the great movie "contact" which I enjoyed a lot! thank you for sharing!

 

[terri]

That's what I thought of, too, Mentos.

This is a wonderful shot, Chris - made me say Wow, too! :thumbup: Be proud of this one.

 

[Alison]

Fantastic shot (I also liked Contact)