RE: [APML] OT: Sh2-170 - was 13.5 hours of Tricolor

[spampit <spampit@shaw.ca>]

Richard,
	I understand why you have odd looking stars. For the skies that you
have access to, you pull some amazing images out of the sky! Pink stars is a
small price to pay. :-) Eliminate stars altogether? That would make for
strange looking astrophotos indeed! I had this conversation with a few
friends over email a couple of days ago. My feelings are that an astrophoto
without stars is like a cat without hair! While some people may like
hairless cats, I can't get comfortable with them. Likewise I need stars in
my astrophotos! While I may not pursue this myself I would like to see the
results, as I am sure others on this list would. 

John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org] On
Behalf Of Richard Crisp
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:20 PM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: Re: [APML] OT: Sh2-170 - was 13.5 hours of Tricolor

thanks for saving me the effort of cracking open the Millennium Star Atlas. 
I was planning to do that later today after shooting my flats and 
reprocessing this pile of data.

regarding the pink stars, i am giving some thought to getting the continuum 
filters so i can eliminate the stars altogether from the images, leaving 
behind the stuff that interests me: the nebulosity. but it is more shots to 
take, more flat fields to process etc.

that's what the "pros" do: they completely eliminate the stars from the 
images so they aren't distracted by them.

narrowband is about nebulosity and the structure thereof. rgb is about that 
and star shape and color. rgb is too demanding for my imaging patterns: i 
don't have the dark skies to do it, don't have the time to drive to them, 
don't have the time or resources to set up a dark sky site and it is too 
confining to me to have to attain "proper star color". I like narrowband 
because i get to write my own book, "do it my way": Just like old blue eyes 
Frank....




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