M87 Black Hole with an sbig 6303 E and a Plane Wave CDK 20

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  1. Alan Josefsek

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  2. Colin Haig

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    Alan, what are we really looking at here? Looks like a whole pile of planetary nebula... How about some technical data or a FITS image?
     
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    Colin, They are all M87 with the a CDK20 and STL6303e . I sent them to Plane Wave and they feel I got the Black hole as well as I. These are 29 stacked with CCD soft. I used the planetary filter in CCD soft and then opened the file in A Microsoft viewer and then edit with Zeke (Orange one ) and zoomed in. The smaller image is prior to zooming in using the Microsoft viewer. You can clearly see the "jet" in the lesser processed images. I have others that are very blown out and overexposed not revealing the black hole. As requested here are some fit files.
     

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    Hello Alan

    I am afraid as the black hole size (event horizon diameter) estimated was with 50µas(microarcsecond), and can not be identified with even 20inch CDK.
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    See note: https://aasnova.org/2019/04/10/first-images-of-a-black-hole-from-the-event-horizon-telescope/

    The M87 image scale around 57 arc second and Event horizon comes 1/1000000 times smaller.
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    Again the final image of a black hole is not visible optical. It is a false color image of radio (a kind of audio) signals after post-processing.

    If we see, telescope setup used (20inchCDK+1603CCD). The plate scale comes 0.54"/pixel. The highest resolution achieves only 0.54". If we really want to see the event horizon then we need 0.000009µm x 0.000009µm pixel CCD.:)

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    Radio is a kind of light - both are electromagnetic radiation. However the telescope for viewing those wavelengths is VERY different, and is essentially as large as planet Earth!
     
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    Yes Sir..:)
     
  7. Alan Josefsek

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    Ok, so what is the dark part of my image?
     
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    I'd have to see the raw data, but I'm guessing it's a saturation artifact. The core of M87 is super bright, and it probably saturated your detector resulting in a flat top. If you did any sharpening on that image the flat top would turn into a dip, and voila!
     
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    I used CCD Soft Lucy Richardson. Combine add. Planetary, zooming plus Microsoft jpg viewer.
     
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    Hello Mr. Alan

    The M87 is a kind of elliptical galaxy, and its center is much violent than our Milkyway (so chosen for event horizon project). The galactic clouds and dust create a kind of opaque wall (highly ionized medium supposed to be there at accretion disk) for the visible spectrum from 400nm-700nm, but NIR/IR/microwave and Radio frequencies may cross it very well. The outer side of M87 is lesser thick so we can see the synchrotron plasma jet towards UV end.

    I saw the beautiful luminance filter image by you, but here we need really a very very big radio telescope and interferometry to enhance the signal and resolution.

    here something interesting for us (a bit funny too): https://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/inquiring/questions/mikep.html

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    Vikrant
     
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    Okay the Lucy Richardson algorithm created the dark area in the middle, because it was saturated. It's just a processing artefact.
     
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    Thanks for the feedback. M87 is an interesting imaging object.
     
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    Yes, it sure is an interesting object. Thank you for imaging it and sharing your data. Was a great discussion. Am looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.
     

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