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Source: MSN NZ, 10:30 AEST Thu Jan 25 2010
"SPACE FROM A SHED
Above: The Veil Nebula ... taken with a 150-minute exposure. (Peter Shah)
You don't need the Hubble Telescope and billions of dollars to take striking snaps of the heavens above, as one stargazer has discovered.
Peter Shah stunned experts after releasing a set of photographs of the Milky Way, all taken from his high-tech backyard shed in Meifod in England's west.
Mr Shah fit a sliding panel in the shed's roof and used a $35,000 telescope to take the photos."
See them here:
http://www.astropix.co.uk/ps/index.htm
"SPACE FROM A SHED
Above: The Veil Nebula ... taken with a 150-minute exposure. (Peter Shah)
You don't need the Hubble Telescope and billions of dollars to take striking snaps of the heavens above, as one stargazer has discovered.
Peter Shah stunned experts after releasing a set of photographs of the Milky Way, all taken from his high-tech backyard shed in Meifod in England's west.
Mr Shah fit a sliding panel in the shed's roof and used a $35,000 telescope to take the photos."
See them here:
http://www.astropix.co.uk/ps/index.htm
