Seeing to the edge of the Universe. An Amateur Astrinomer Images
a distant Quasar! Not too many 'amateur' astronomers are capable
of seeing to the edge of the Universe. When the idea first
occurred to him, neither did Dr. Christian Sasse. Dr. Sasse,
German-Canadian, Physicist-Engineer, keen astronomer and all
round good guy, stumbled onto this idea due to his acquaintance
with fellow Canadian, Paul Boltwood (works at MaximDL) who
according to Christian, “inspired me (without him knowing) to go
even further than his record for the faintest object.” So Dr.
Sasse embarked on a project that took much personal effort and
over two years of He commissioned the fabrication of a new star
machine that he felt certain would allow us 'amateurs' to peer
back in time, to galaxies far, far away. Actually...a certain
quasar in Ursa Major, powered by a supermassive black hole 3
billion times the mass of our Sun. When J1148+5251 was first
detected by Earthlings in 2003, it was crowned as the oldest &
most distant object ever o