A personal account of how the discovery was made. I then include a couple of pictures of me. Unfortunately, the pink colour is quite subtle and doesn't always come out when printing these pictures. Copy of the same image without annotations, markings, and border. Original Raw Data, before the smoothing, clipping and bad pixel removal that I have applied to the original data.
Funny colour marks all over the image are bad pixels on the CCD or cosmic ray hits.
The object is half way up but somewhat right of centre. Clipped subset of the above, showing the pink black hole and the star lying just south-west of it on the sky. We have now discovered about 100 quasars like this. If the colour doesn't show up on your printer, try the colour amplified images where I've computer- enhanced the colour. This picture was taken using the one-metre telescope at Siding Spring Observatory.