Re: [APML] November images

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

Whoa Jeff--you've got some fantastic shots there.
November was a VERY good month for you!!

Congratulations!! Steve


Jeff Ball wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have a mix of images from November.
>
> Film only:
>
> My Techpan wide field had flexure, so the only film images that worked out
> were my two tripod only.  The first is a renewed effort on my part to do
> some "simple" tripod only shots and more composites.  My goal was to capture
> naked eye stars with an observer silhouetted.  I think I have a little
> deeper than naked eye in the image, but it is close.
>
> http://www.astro-photography.com/masp_2002.htm
>
> The second was an attempt to catch Orion rising in the Carolina pines.  The
> night started out very dry and so I did not bother with due heaters.  Well,
> as you know, it is difficult to check dew on an open lens, so I did not see
> the frost until after the exposure.  The effect was not as severe as I
> thought it would be in that it dimmed M42 and the stars on the same
> declination/ra as they continued to rise into the sky.
>
> http://www.astro-photography.com/orion_st_2002.htm
>
> I reworked another composite that I posted an earlier version of-Griffith
> Observatory and Milky Way
> http://www.astro-photography.com/griffith_composite.htm
>
> Film and CCD:
>
> Below are combination of film for RGB plus CCD
>
> Halpha horsehead plus RG200 hypered film shots from 2001.  Color balance is
> a little out a whack with the dominating Halpha and I got it as close as I
> could.
> http://www.astro-photography.com/horsehead_haRGB.htm
>
> Here is the CCD Halpha only
> http://www.astro-photography.com/horsehead_halpha.htm
>
> This is an attempt at an M31 mosaic.  Only 2 frames out of what will
> probably be at least 10.  I am hopeful I will get to put some Techpan
> developed in HC110 with the film data at some point.  The way my weather
> looks, I don't know if I will get to finish it or not.  The luminance is
> from an ST10 and film is PPF.
>
> http://www.astro-photography.com/m31_LRGB.htm
>
> Cirrus nebula.  Not quite as clean as I would like it, I had some tracking
> issues-darn cables!
> HA CCD only
> http://www.astro-photography.com/cirrus_ha_ccd.htm
>
> HA plus RG200 film.
> http://www.astro-photography.com/cirrus_hargb_ccd.htm
>
> Flaming star:
> http://www.astro-photography.com/flaming_star_lrgb.htm
>
> M33:  I will probably revisit the color balance on the M33, but I did like
> the luminance with a "real unsharp mask" as per Jerry Lodriguss' article
> http://www.astro-photography.com/M33_lrgb_st10.htm
>
> CCD only
> http://www.astro-photography.com/M33_luminance.htm
>
> CCD only is my first decent result of imaging with the Coronado solarmax
> 40mm and the ST10.
>
> http://www.astro-photography.com/masp_halpha_color.htm
>
> The weather is looking half way decent for the end of the week.  Only if the
> snow doesn't get too deep.  Comments/critiques welcome.
> Jeff Ball
>
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