Re: [APML] First attempt NGC 7000

[Eric Beard <ericzbeard@yahoo.com>]

Nice image, good tracking for doing it manually.  The
stars are a little on the red side.

EZB

--- Frank Barrett <frankb@celestialwonders.com> wrote:
> I had the chance to get to some dark skies and
> decided to try some piggy
> back.  I chose the North America Nebula as my
> target.  The lens was a
> 135mm Takumar at f/4.  I shot twice at 30 minutes
> and twice at 45 minutes,
> but one of the 45 min shots was ruined as I
> inadvertently unplugged the
> dew heater between exposures and the lens fogged up
> on me.  Here's the
> processing:
> 
> 1) scanned with Minolt Dimage Dual Scan II saved as
> 16 bit TIFF
> 2) rough levels and curves in PS also saved as TIFF
> 3) Three images brought into Picture Window Pro and
> registered
> 4) Brought back into PS, stacked and final curves
> and color tweaks, saved
> as psd.
> 5) Image flattened and resized using nearest
> neighbor and saved off as JPEG.
> 
>
http://www.celestialwonders.com/NorthAmericaNebula.html
> 
> I really fussed over the background color on this
> one.  How do you think I
> did?  I definitely think I could have gone longer on
> this...there's
> nothing like dark skies!
> 
> Frank
> http://celestialwonders.com
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