RE: [APML] New California Nebula

[Alen Koebel <alen_koebel@yahoo.ca>]

Quite the opposite. It's one of their older scopes
from the early 90's. Meade's first generation of 
Schmidt-Newtonians. The fork mount it's on (and can't
easily be removed from!) looks almost exactly like
Meade mated a pair of LX3/LX10 SCT fork arms to a
Starfinder RA assembly on its pier (which is probably
what they did, except that this scope predates the
Starfinders). Suporting a 6" f/5 OTA that probably
weighs no more than 12 lbs., it's plenty stable 
(1" steel RA shaft, 4" diameter steel pier). 

Within the next few days I'll try and get a page
up showing a picture of the scope and my astrophoto
setup. Funny thing is, there's almost nothing I'm
using that wasn't available (AFAIK) back when this
scope was made (except for the exact type of film,
and the computing power and programs to get the
most out of the images). So anyone could have done
what I'm doing with it now, at least to the point
of getting the images on the film. Yet apparently
no one did - or they did and we just never heard 
about it (the Internet is a great way today to get
stuff noticed). 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Allen [mailto:jeffstak@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 11:15 PM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: Re: [APML] New California Nebula


Alen,

That's a great shot. Eyeball guiding is tough. Looks
like you did a pretty good job. Not familiar with the
scope though. Is it one of Meades newer SN's?

Jeff Allen


--- Alen Koebel <alen_koebel@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 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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