But first light is first light, and this is it. Here is the full 1024x1024 pixel image in GIF format. Here is a smaller 512x512 pixel version of the full image in GIF format. This is an image of the globular cluster M3 taken on May 11th 1996. The filter is Km, and this is a single 2 second image, again only sky-subtracted.
North is now up and East left.
The weather was marginal again, but at least the seeing had improved somewhat, to roughly 1.5 arcsec FWHM in this image. Having said that, the stars in this image will look a bit fuzzier since it has been scaled logarithmically to show a wide dynamic range. Here is the full 1024x1024 pixel image in GIF format. Here is a smaller 512x512 pixel version of the full image in GIF format. This is an image of the Galactic Centre taken on May 11th 1996.