which was held at Horizon Scotland at the Business Park in Forres in the north of Scotland.
The event ran from Thursday 10th November 2005 until Saturday 12th November.
During the Festival, the telescope was under the control of members of the north of Scotland's two mainland astronomy clubs.
SIGMA, Moray's Astronomy Club and Highlands Astronomical Society.
| Designation |
Date
and Time |
Exposures |
| NGC
2903, a magnitude 8.9 spiral galaxy in Leo. |
Nov
11 2005 14.20 to 14.24 |
RGB
filters, 45 seconds |
 |
Alan Tough's image. |
 |
Eric Walker's image highlights the dust
lanes and the core of the galaxy. |
 |
Eric desaturated and inverted this image to give a "negative" effect. |
 |
Eric Walker This is Eric's favourite version of this target. It was produced by adding a luminance layer to the RGB image. The advantage of this technique is that the coloured layers do not have to be unsharpened as the detail in the image comes from the luminance layer. |