Re: [APML] "New" image - from 12 years ago

["Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Hi John -
Good to see an old timer image!  Those were the good old days.  Doing
astrophotography like a real man.  Just your eyeball, drive corrector paddle
and some voodoo brewed film....... <g>

Maybe I can find one of my old Tech Pan shots from the 80's and bring it
back to life...  now you got me started..... gotta go dig around.....

Chris

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Chris Cook
Astronomical Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro


-----Original Message-----
From: John C. Mirtle <jmirtle@shaw.ca>
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:25 AM
Subject: [APML] "New" image - from 12 years ago


    Well, this was a long time coming. I took this image back on Sept 21
1990 but it was a bit thin on the negative, so I filed the image away. For
the last few months I have been scanning all my old negatives when I came
across this one, that I had forgotten all about. Back when I took the image,
few had heard of CCD's, fewer actually owned a computer, fewer still had an
auto-guider and the G-11 was about to burst on to the market. Through the
magic of curves and levels, my manually guided 2 hour exposure sees the
light!
    We have seen many shot's of the central triangle of the Veil, but not
very often at 1200mm on tech pan. I am quite pleased with the fine detail on
the image, thanks to my *ahem* superb manual guiding. :-) I must have been
mainlining coffee that night. These days I think the chances of me pulling
off a 2 hour guided shot are pretty much nil. Besides, the list is pretty
quiet today.....

http://members.shaw.ca/john.mirtle/pickering.htm

Comments welcome!

John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada

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