Re: [APML] A little M31 & M45

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

Sure.  Go ahead and post it.

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 1:08 PM
Subject: RE: [APML] A little M31 & M45


> Chris, Glenn,
> Thanks for the comments. Chris, I agree on M45. I processed most of that
one
> a week+ ago and truly can't remember what I did for smoothing, I think it
> was SBGNR. I had already decided to start from scratch on that one, it
just
> looks a little soft, doesn't it?
>
> Want a challenge? I've got a baby witch that needs special handling, want
to
> give it a go? I can load a .tiff copy on my site for download.
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Hammonds
> www.creatorsview.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cook [mailto:ccook@cape.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:43 PM
> To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
> Subject: Re: [APML] A little M31 & M45
>
> 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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