by owlice » Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:43 pm
Sheila, welcome to Asterisk! Yes, they are from the telescope. They are called diffraction spikes, and more information about them can be found in this
Wikipedia article.
Sheila, welcome to Asterisk! Yes, they are from the telescope. They are called diffraction spikes, and more information about them can be found in this [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike]Wikipedia article[/url].