BBC Focus Magazine

[Jamie]

This is truly astonishing: an “amateur” astronomer in New Zealand, Rolf Olsen, has for the first time actually been able to get a direct photograph of the disk of swirling material forming a planet around a nearby star!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... ar-system/

[M Paul Lloyd]

The digital age has empowered the common man at last.

Mind you, even though he is considered an 'amateur' he must have some seriously professional kit in his observatory.

[Willxx]

is this actually real or is it a case of just continually playing with an image until something plausible looking comes out?

[M Paul Lloyd]

Looks pretty convincing to me Willxx.

[Shadowwolf]

is this actually real or is it a case of just continually playing with an image until something plausible looking comes out?

Well digital enhancement and / or repair of old nuclear test footage revealed otherwise hidden details so it's possible.