Re: [APML] November images

["Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>]

Jeff your are doing some really awesome work with the marriage of CCD and
Film! Congrads on that! Who says one or the other! Your proving that not
only can you do both but you can combine them and take some very fine
images!
Jim Ives
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@zoominternet.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:09 PM
Subject: [APML] November images


> 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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