Re: [APML] Beautiful Leonid Image

["Steve Lindsey" <stevelindsey@earthlink.net>]

Great shots from all you folks.  Love the stacks with all the
meteors.  Since some are still in the meteor mood I'll post my
one token Leonid that got caught on film.  I like it and was
lucky to get it given the clouds where I was.

http://www.geocities.com/stevelindsey2001/leonid.html

Steve

>--- Original Message ---
>
That is a nice one, Tony.
>I reprocessed my favorite composition from the storm, and added
all the
>frames with meteors to get this:
>http://mysky.org/mysky/?article_get=1&article=2:50004
>
>I spent the entire night shooting only 2 constellations. too
bad all the
>fireballs either were right out of the frame, or went through
it while I
>was advancing the film :-(
>this is a combination of 3 frames, each about 10 minutes, but
I think
>one was much shorter because there were less stars in the shot.
>
>Sean Walker
>
>Tony Hallas wrote:
>
>> Hello,     I have had the good fortune to work on what IMHO
is one of
>> the most beautiful images to come out of the Leonid Saga...
the
>> combination of the foreground, the clouds, the bright Winter
stars,
>> and the Leonids coming out of the clouds all combine to create
a
>> magical image. The author of the image is Wally Pacholka,
a name some
>> of you might recognize from previous publishings... he spent
three
>> nights staying up all night to get this... the image is a
composite
>> and I did some extensive work to deal with some severe light
pollution
>> issues... I have this on a "secret" part of my web page and
we have
>> his permission to exhibit it.    It's at:
>> http://www.astrophoto.com/WP.htm    Hope you like it,    
     Tony
>
>




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