From: "milton_aupperle" <maupperl@shaw.ca>

Date: November 26, 2012 11:43:54 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Early Christmas Present

Hi Folks;

I always give my immediate family members Astro Prints I made up for Christmas - as well as an actual gift. Usually it's a large print of the moon I shot with Astro IIDC, but I decided to do something different this year - especially since I had good seeing for DSOS imaging this summer.

Here is a Galaxy Collage I made up from imaging sessions I shot with Astro IIDC:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Other/GalaxyCollage_2012_MJA.jpg 

It's designed to print out at 300 DPI onto a 14" x 11" page and is 4200 x 3302 pixels  - 2.6 megabytes in size. So print out a copy for yourselves or friends.

The background is M33 and then we have insets of various Galaxies, with the top row  (left to right) M51, NGC 4565, M81, then upper middle row NGC 6946 and NGC 29013, then lower middle row of M65, M64 and Stephen's Quintet, then the bottom row is NGC 891, NGC 7640, M66 NGC 4731 and M81.

And for those of you in the USA, I hope you had a safe and happy ThanksGiving.

Milton J. Aupperle