Re: [APML] New California Nebula

[Alen Koebel <alen_koebel@yahoo.ca>]

Yeah, I might have overdone it on the bottom end.
I'm still relatively new at all this (that shot was
only my second or third prime-focus one - ever).

-----Original Message-----
From: mike halderman [mailto:astro@mrh.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 11:30 PM
To: apml
Subject: Re: [APML] New California Nebula


That is a nice image!  Manually guided as well, good
job. I prefer a somewhat lighter background, it seems
dark on the top of the image.  Just my preference,
though.

-mike

Alen Koebel <alen_koebel@yahoo.ca> writes:

> This is my second posted image to APML. It's not
> really a "new" shot since it was actually taken last
> August (kinda hard to find this object now <g>). But
> it's a new scan of the slide (2,820 dpi, 48 bit) and
> the first time I've image-processed the scan.
>
>
http://www3.sympatico.ca/the.koebels2/Astronomy/california.htm
>
> Please critique the image. (As if I have to ask!
<g>)
> Things I know about already: One, it's not in the
> usual orientation of North up. I tried flipping it,
> but for whatever reason I preferred it this way. 
> {The framing, OTOH, was the choice of my off-axis
> guider: I take whatever is reasonable to find a
> suitable guide star!) Re the processing, the
brighter
> stars are clipped and hence bloated a bit. And, I
> applied some gaussian blur in Picture Window but I
> haven't yet tried SGBNR, which I suspect would yield
> better results.



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