Re: [APML] Film / CCD mix Wide Field M42

[Craig McIntyre <craigmcintyre@optushome.com.au>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:49 -0600, Jason Ware wrote:
> Shot M42 (again in bright moonlight) last night with
> an HA filter and Meade 6" refractor 
> from Dallas using a Yankee Robotics 
> Trifid 6303 CCD camera. Used it for luma and added
> color data from a previous film image. The highlights
> are blown a bit due to having to stretch the data
> pretty hard to overcome the city/moon light. Can't
> wait to try this from a dark sky. The core of M42
> came from the 16" version I posted a few days
> ago.....
> 
> http://galaxyphoto.com/temp/jw_orion_CCD_wide_final.jpg
> 
> Room to grow but hey, I am new to this CCD stuff.
> Never once with film did I have to "reload a driver"
> :-)

Nice image Jason! You certainly worked hard to pull out the finer
details. One thing I noticed was that a lot of the brighter stars have a
dark halo around them. Is this a processing artifact from the hard
stretching?

Cheers,
Craig.

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