A latest news buzz from telegraph.co.uk says that an amateur astronomer Peter Shah, 38, staying in the English Hillside town of Meifod has been able to capture stunning shots of the galactic signatures from his own backyard with a modest 8-inch telescope.
What the multi billion dollar tech baby of NASA - the Hubble space telescope has been doing all this while has been acheived at a lesser scale (but with good quality) from a modified backyard garden shed that cost Peter a modest £ 20,000 for buying a good telescope and mounting it on the roof.
What is so baffling and incredible is that the images caught on tape through his telescopes attached to his computer are no mean feat. You will understand what I mean if you visit his gallery at his webpage here . Though it is an amateur astronomer’s effort, the results look as good as any professional astronomer’s clicks.
Peter Shahs telescope at his backyard
Peter Shah, an office worker and a hobbyist astronomer says he has been fascinated at being an astronomer at a very tender age of seven when his mother got him a tiny £ 5 telescope and this legacy still lingers as his hobby of sky watching and star gazing. Images in his collection include the Monkey’s head nebula, M33 Pinwheel Galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy and the Flaming Star Nebula.
This is what he had to say about his feat in an interview to the site opticstar.com
“On my seventh birthday my folks got me my first telescope which started my interest in astronomy, I sat for hours looking at the moon as a child. I remember pointing my scope at a bright star to the east, I put my eye to the telescope and saw Jupiter for the very first time, and I felt like I had discovered something and ran around telling everyone. I pointed a camera at the sky in my early teens, when my uncle, who was a keen amateur photographer, gave me an old SLR camera and tripod, which I did simple exposures of the constellations and experimented with star trailing.”
His images have been brought together for the first time in a book called Mirror Image. Images from the book and other photographs can be viewed at http://www.astropix.co.uk
Well, contrary to the adage, for persons like Peter Shah, even sky is not the limit !!
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