Hi all, At Ed Turner's request I'm sending out this link to some "pretty pictures" taken with the 3.5m and SPIcam this past Saturday night as part of UW's Astronomy Day open house: http://galileo.apo.nmsu.edu/~jcb/apo/spicam/ Chris imaged some bright Messier objects to show the crowd in Seattle what it was like to observe remotely in "real time". Seeing was a bit over an arcsecond when these were taken but quite variable, so I selected the best of the lot for combining. I calibrated the BVR images and made color composites from them. The colors are close, but not exactly right in my opinion so I'll probably so some additional tweaking of these colors, eventually. If anyone in the 3.5m user community would like to use these images for promotional, public outreach, etc. purposes, please feel free to download them from my page. I also have them saved as higher-resolution bitmap files if anyone wants those; email me if you need them. Regards, John Barentine Observing Specialist I APO APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 569 in the apo35-general archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-general/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-general@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO