Re: tricolor strip

[aah@nofs.navy.mil]

Tom, (replying via maillist since you cc'd to it)
  With our poor color printer, the gee-whiz stuff (the nebulosity in this
case) does not show very well.  What the strip does show is the enormous amount
of data acquired in 45mins with the typical mark III: 3 accurate colors of
thousands of stars in a 3x9 degree area of the sky.  A scan that included
the Orion Nebula (M41) itself or perhaps the summer Milky Way would be
prettier. What you want is something bright, with a lot of color, and an
extent of several degrees.  Bright nebulae or dust clouds/regions of
extinction are obvious choices.  This scan of Orion's belt isn't that bad.
Arne