Re: [APML] Re: NGC 2392 revisited

["John Boudreau" <jeboud@mediaone.net>]

> Excellent image John!  Nice work by Sean too.  Almost as good as
CCD.......
> <g>
> I always love seeing your planetary neb images.
>
> Chris

Thanks Chris. As for the CCD, it's gonna have to happen someday! Only $$ (or
the lack thereof) is keeping that from happening now.

John Boudreau
jeboud@mediaone.net
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeboud/astro.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris & Jennifer Cook <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 8:19 PM
Subject: [APML] Re: NGC 2392 revisited


> Excellent image John!  Nice work by Sean too.  Almost as good as
CCD.......
> <g>
> I always love seeing your planetary neb images.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> ==================
> Chris Cook
> Astronomical Photography
> www.abmedia.com/astro
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> A Happy New Year to all of you!
>
>                       I finally got around to processing some shots of
> NGC2392 taken back in
>                       October, using Fuji Provia 100F +IUIC^_YQ_. f/11 on
my
> 12"SCT. The best 3 of 5 images
>                       were stacked in RegiStar, processed in Photoshop 6,
> and touched up with
>                       Bgsmooth.
>
>                       The results were much better than my previous image
of
> this object from
>                       early 2001, and a few days ago I showed the results
to
> my friend and fellow
>                       APML'er Sean Walker. Since the noise level in the
> image was reasonably low
>                       (for film), he asked for the original RegiStar tiff
> file so he could try his
>                       hand at deconvoluting it with MaxIm DL. This helped
> pull out even more
>                       detail --- we have both tried our hand at film image
> manipulation with MaxIm
>                       DL in the past but this is a particularly
interesting
> result, I think. I did
>                       feel the need however, to "soften" the result
somewhat
> by cloning in my
>                       Photoshop version at about 20%.
>
>                       Close up at:
> http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeboud/ngc2392.htm
>
>                       Wide field version:
> http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeboud/ngc2392_wdfld.htm
>
>                       And finally I put up a temporary page to show the
> comparison of my original
>                       result, and Sean's original deconvoluted version:
>                       http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeboud/ps6_vs_mdl.htm
>
>                       Comments of both flavors always welcome.
>
>
>                       John Boudreau
>                       jeboud@mediaone.net
>                       http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeboud/astro.htm
>
>
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