Photographed through one of my other favourite telescopes, the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar (now known as the Samuel Oschin Telescope).
Here's an up to date (interactive) image taken with the same scope.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Andromeda Galaxy, circa 1959
Just found this 1959 image of M31 that I talked about earlier in my blog on the Palomar Skies blog.
Photographed through one of my other favourite telescopes, the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar (now known as the Samuel Oschin Telescope).
Here's an up to date (interactive) image taken with the same scope.
Photographed through one of my other favourite telescopes, the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar (now known as the Samuel Oschin Telescope).
Here's an up to date (interactive) image taken with the same scope.
