RE: [APML] Witchhead Challenge

["Scott Hammonds" <shammonds@creatorsview.com>]

Holy Smoke! John Mirtle! Where have you been?

Nice guys! Chris, Joe and John, rising to the challenge for a tough object
and unfortunately not a perfect file to work with. The trailed stars show
worse on the smaller version when enlarged for the web. I'll post the whole
file reduced, but it'll be a big file. I'll also post the uncropped version
when I post mine. You guys do nice work.

Interesting difference between Chris and John's, more red showing in John's.

Mine was taken at New Mexico Skies and here is a CCD image taken with the
STL11000 and AP130 by Chris Hetlage on the same night. We drove the 1300
miles from Atlanta together. 
http://www.hetlage.com/images/wh.htm


Scott Hammonds
www.creatorsview.com

-----Original Message-----
From: John Mirtle [mailto:spampit@shaw.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:43 PM
To: 'Discussion of Film Astrophotography'
Subject: RE: [APML] Witchhead Challenge

Alrighty then!
	Scott, I processed this to really bring out the faint emission
nebula running behind the Witch and Rigel. For a reference, have a look at
Rehmann's image:
http://www.astrooptik.com/Bildergalerie/Schmidt/Rehmann/ic2118.htm Lots of
curves tweaking in Photoshop 6 produced this:
http://www.astrofoto.ca/john/witch_challenge.htm A bit grainy perhaps, but I
like a little grain with my images. Makes it look like it was shot with film
and not airbrushed! Looks like you went pretty deep with this shot. :)

John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada



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