Re: [APML] New TMB152, Perseid, Star Trails Images Posted

["Bert Katzung" <katzung1@attbi.com>]

Hi Jon:
Welcome back! Those are great shots! I'm amazed that the meteor registered
as well as it did at f/4 and film ISO of only 100. Was it an extremely
bright one visually?  Did you do any push processing or heavy stretching?
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@attbi.com
www.astronomy-images.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Kolb" <jkolb@datawest.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: [APML] New TMB152, Perseid, Star Trails Images Posted


> This has been a difficult summer for astrophotography for me.  June had
> horrible seeing, and then all the huge fires started, closing several
> dark sites in the Pike National Forest that I use.  July was a bust for
> several reasons, but mostly because of the conflicts of daily life and
> the lack of access to close-in dark sites.  Pike is reopened, but now
> Steamboat's on fire and we had a NW wind that brought the smoke smell
> all the way down here in CoS a couple nights ago.  I'd take three feet
> of snow tomorrow if we could get it. Come on, El Nino.
>
> Finally in August I got out with the new TMB152 refractor, and on Tony
> Hallas' old MI-250 mount, since the G-11 couldn't handle the moment arm.
> My wife and I also managed a camping trip to watch the Perseids, and
> thus we had a chance to do some star trails.
>
> So, here's a couple using the TMB 152, both are only single 60-minute,
> unpushed exposures to see what it could do.  I'm pretty darn happy with
> the image quality, although the real sharpness doesn't come through at
> web resolution. I'm especially happy since these were taken on the first
> night out with the MI-250 - I hadn't even set it all up at home with the
> 152 before.  M16 is probably still a bit too red-saturated now that I
> look at it again.
> http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/m24.htm
>
> http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/m16.htm
>
> And here's some new star trails from the Cimarron River near Owl Creek
> Pass.  I wasn't trying to capture Perseids - just wanted to get the
> mountains with some help from the four day old moon.  Nevertheless, by
> sheer luck a really bright one went through the frame on a couple of
> these.
> http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/precipice_perseid.htm
>
> http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/dunsinane_trails.htm
>
> http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/chimney_trails.htm
>
> Comments are always welcome, on or off list. And, if you're thinking of
> camping out here this summer, remember that they just changed the law
> and an illegal campfire is now a felony in Colorado.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jon Kolb
> Adventures in Astrophotography
> http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/
> jkolb@datawest.net
>




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