Re: [APML] IC1396 on RG200

[astropix@att.net]

 John,

     Very nice, for a single exposure especially... but 
did you fit a 90mm cross-hair filter to the dew shield 
of that TV-85? I've done so with camera lenses for the 
diffraction spike effect... but isn't this one reason 
for refractor's appeal... *no* spikes?

 Best   :O)

 Geoff Powers

> I finally got a chance to shoot IC1396 with hypered "old" RG200. It *just*
> fit in the field of my TV85. This is a 90 minute exposure @ f/5.6
> 
> http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/ic1396.htm
> 
> Processed in Photoshop and MaxIm DL. I lightly blended a PS curves-tweaked R
> channel copy as a synthetic L channel in MaxIm, it seems to have helped the
> nebula's details somewhat.
> 
> 
> John Boudreau
> jeboud@attbi.com
> http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/astro.htm
> 
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