[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index]

Re: [APML] Preview: summer Milky Way

Wei-Hao, I cannot begin to imagine what this took out of you to do but it sure seemed worth it when
you unveiled the final product!

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

Stuart
http://www3.sympatico.ca/stuart.j.heggie/Stuart.J.Heggie/
Flesherton, Ontario, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wei-Hao Wang" <whwang@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Preview: summer Milky Way


> Thank you, guys.
>
> Stuart, I surely hope I can add more rows.  To the north-west, there
> is Sco-Oph star formaing region.  To the south-east, there is R-CrA
> star forming region.  And there are many interesting stuffs in between.
> However, I guess the current 20-frame mosaic is the limit for myself
> and my computer.  In order to make this mosaic smaller than 2GB,
> I gave up using 16bit/channel.  I may lose some highlight and shadow
> details by doing so.  I also slightly reduced the pixel dimensions of
> each frame before I combined them.  Still, the 20-layer, 8bit/channel
> PSD file was once 1.6GB before I flattened the image.
>
> Also, the time spent on exposing/guiding, scanning, and flat fielding
> made me start to hate this business.  It's rewarding.  But before I can
> see the results, it's really painful.
>
> Wei-Hao
>
> --
> ________________________________________________________________
> Wei-Hao Wang  :)
>
> Institute for Astronomy at University of Hawaii
>
> Address:
> 2680 Woodlawn Drive         Personal Website:
> Honolulu, HI 96822             http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang
> ________________________________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
> Astro-Photo mailing list
> Astro-Photo@seds.org
> http://seds.org/mailman/listinfo/astro-photo
>

_______________________________________________
Astro-Photo mailing list
Astro-Photo@seds.org
http://seds.org/mailman/listinfo/astro-photo