1004X EX-VIEW LONG EXPOSURE ASTRO CAMERA

QUASAR PG1634+706

10th DECEMBER 2002

VC200L F6.3 1004x-JG L 45x 20sec

At 9 billion light years, this is the most distant object I have imaged to date. The photons which were captured to form this image left when the universe was 1/3 of its present age and have travelled across 2/3 of the visible universe!