Re: [APML] A little M31 & M45

["Chris Cook" <ccook@cape.com>]

Hi Scott -

Those are both very nice.  I really like M31.  M45 is also nice.  The only
comment I have on M45 is that the smoothing was, IMO, taken a hair too far.
M45 is always a tough object to get a nice smooth look.  What smoothing
program did you use?

Chris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Hammonds" <shammonds@creatorsview.com>
To: "'Discussion of Film Astrophotography'" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:22 AM
Subject: [APML] A little M31 & M45


> Here are two more shots from my trip to New Mexico in October, I'm almost
> through posting these, I promise.
> Both were taken with my 4" Tele Vue refractor using hypered RG200 select.
> Although not spectacular compared to some of the past posts here, they are
> probably my personal best on these targets. I used a mask blur technique
> from Jerry's book to help reduce the grain, which wasn't terrible with
this
> film.
>
> http://www.creatorsview.com/astrophoto/nms04/andromeda.html
>
> http://www.creatorsview.com/astrophoto/nms04/pleiades.html
>
> Comments, criticism and observations welcome,
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Hammonds
> www.creatorsview.com
>
>
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