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Michael,
Please be my guest ... I would
be honored. Just be sure to state that this is from a FILM guy ... : -
)
It was taken with the 14.5" f/8
Classical Cassegrain from 2500 foot elevation in my backyard observatory near
Foresthill, CA. ST-10E camera (the one you sold me, not an ME) with
off-axis guiding through an STV. Average error this night was .3 at 3000mm focal
length on the read out ... graph looked almost like a straight line! I took a
total of 6 - 25 minute exposures with the clear filter (not the IR cut-off
clear). Images were debloomed with CCDOPS, converted to floating point IEEE FITS
in MaxIM, reduced in MaxIM and aligned, blended in Sigma, converted to 16 bit
Tiff in MaxIm, opened in PS with curves and did a little cleaning up with PS.
This is essentially a quick and dirty image to see what I got ... final version
coming, hopefully in color...shot 180 minutes of blue data last night ... same
awesome seeing.
I see now that the CCD
camera is without a doubt the next imaging medium ... it's really not film vs.
CCD anymore ... it's like film is an old technology that no longer has any place
except perhaps for large format images of the Milky Way ... and now that you
have this large camera coming out, maybe that's history, too!
You guys have done well ... definitely worth a few
good guitars ...
Tony
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